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Chinese Agriculture in the 1930s

Investigations into John Lossing Buck’s Rediscovered ‘Land Utilization in China’ Microdata

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Editors:
  1. Hao Hu

    1. College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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  2. Funing Zhong

    1. College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

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  3. Calum G. Turvey

    1. Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

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  • Presents the first modern analysis of John Lossing Buck’s original and newly digitzed farm survey data from the Republic of China, 1929-1933
  • Builds upon John Lossing Buck’s seminal work in Land Utilization in China
  • Reexamines key features of China’s agricultural economy in the Republican Era

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxii
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  2. China’s Agriculture in the 1930s: An Overview

    • Calum G. Turvey
    Pages 1-32

  3. John Lossing Buck and Land Utilization in China

    • Calum G. Turvey
    Pages 33-54

  4. Calamities and Conflict Affecting Rural China 1929–1933

    • Calum G. Turvey
    Pages 55-83

  5. The Discovery and Restoration of Buck’s Original Data

    • Hao Hu, Mikio Suga, Weiwei Zheng, Minjie Yu, Funing Zhong
    Pages 85-112

  6. Reliability of John Lossing Buck’s Land Utilization Survey Data: A Preliminary Test of Grain Yields

    • Funing Zhong, Hao Hu, Qun Su
    Pages 113-119

  7. Tenancy Issues in Northwest China During the Republican Era

    • Minjie Yu, Hao Hu
    Pages 121-137

  8. Regional Differences in Surplus Agricultural Labor During China’s Republican Era, Based on Buck’s Rural Survey Data

    • Hao Hu, Weiwei Zheng
    Pages 139-152

  9. Agricultural Poverty and Inequality in 1930s China: Estimates of Gini and Engel Coefficients from Buck’s Data

    • Hao Hu, Zhongwei Yang
    Pages 153-169

  10. An Analysis on the Inverse Relationship between Yield and Farm Size in Rural China in the 1930s

    • Hisatoshi Hoken, Qun Su
    Pages 171-191

  11. The Relationship Between Farm Size and Land Productivity in Early Twentieth-Century China

    • Hao Hu, Minjie Yu
    Pages 193-224

  12. Farm Credit Demand and Supply in 1930s China

    • Calum G. Turvey, Hong Fu
    Pages 225-257

  13. The Change in China’s Cropland Utilization and Productivity Over Nearly a Century in China: A Comparison Study Based on Buck’s Survey

    • Hao Hu, Feng Zhang
    Pages 259-272

  14. A Comparison of Certain Changes in Chinese Agricultural Operations between Buck’s Republican Era and Modern China

    • Hao Hu, Funing Zhong
    Pages 273-290

  15. Concluding Thoughts

    • Hao Hu, Funing Zhong, Calum G. Turvey
    Pages 291-301

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 303-311
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About this book

This edited volume analyzes land utilization data from farm surveys taken in China between 1929 and 1933. This data, which was the foundation for John Lossing Buck’s seminal work Land Utilization in China (1937), was thought lost to history until rediscovered in 2000. The book presents the first modern analyses of agricultural economics in Republican China using Buck’s micro-data, covering important topics such as nutritional poverty, tenancy issues, land productivity, surplus labor, workers’ incomes, credit supply, and regional differences. Through using modern analytical methods, this book presents a more accurate picture of the agricultural economy in the Republican Era and will be of particular interest to agricultural economists, economic historians, and Chinese studies scholars.

Editors and Affiliations

  • College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, China

    Hao Hu, Funing Zhong

  • Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

    Calum G. Turvey

About the editors

Hao Hu is Professor in the College of Economics and Management at Nanjing Agricultural University, China. He was the principal investigator on the project “Electronic and Database Construction of Buck’s Data” from 2012 to 2015. He specializes in animal husbandry economics and agricultural economic history,

 

Funing Zhong is a Distinguished Professor and Vice Chairman of Academic Committee of Nanjing Agricultural University. His research interests cover agricultural production and trade, as well as rural development. The restoroation work of Buck' data was started under his lead as the Dean of the College of Economics and Management, Nanjing Agricultural University.


Calum Turvey is the W.I. Myers Professor of Agricultural Finance in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management,  S.C. Johnson College of Business,  and College of Agricultural and Life Sciences at Cornell University, USA. He is the editor of AgriculturalFinance Review and conducts research in the area of agricultural finance, risk management and agricultural policy with regional interests in the United States, China, and Sub-Saharan Africa.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Chinese Agriculture in the 1930s

  • Book Subtitle: Investigations into John Lossing Buck’s Rediscovered ‘Land Utilization in China’ Microdata

  • Editors: Hao Hu, Funing Zhong, Calum G. Turvey

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12688-9

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12687-2Published: 31 May 2019

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12690-2Published: 14 August 2020

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12688-9Published: 21 May 2019

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXII, 311

  • Number of Illustrations: 31 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Agricultural Economics, Economic History, Asian Economics

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