Smallholders Householders or Governance and Politics of China

Smallholders, Householders: Farm Families and the Ecology of Intensive, Sustainable Agriculture

Author: Robert McC Netting

“A magnificent work of scholarly synthesis. His book will long remain essential reading for all who claim an interest in debates about agrarian change.”—The Geographical Journal

Table of Contents:

	Tables and Figures
	Prologue: An Ethnological Essay in Practical Reason	1
1	The Technology and Knowledge of Intensive Farm Practices	28
2	The Farm-Family Household	58
3	Labor-Time Allocation	102
4	Energy Inputs, Outputs, and Sustainable Systems	123
5	Farm Size and Productivity	146
6	Smallholder Property and Tenure	157
7	Inequality, Stratification, and Polarization	189
8	Chinese Smallholders	232
9	Intensive Agriculture, Population Density, Markets, and the Smallholder Adaptation	261
10	Peasant Farming and the Chayanov Model	295
	Epilogue: Does the Smallholder Have a Future?	320
	References Cited	337
	Index	379

Interesting textbook: The Four Yogas or The Baby Boomer Body Book

Governance and Politics of China

Author: Anthony Saich

Over the past 20 years change in China has been breathtaking. Reform has affected every facet of life and has left no policy and institution untouched. Now available in a substantially revised second edition covering the changes of the Sixteenth Party Congress and Tenth National People's Congress and other recent developments this major text by a leading academic authority, who has also lived and worked in China, provides a thorough introduction to all aspects of politics and governance in post-Mao China.