Chinese Agriculture in the 1930s

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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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.

• agricultural economics
• john lossing buck
• chinese economics
• asian economics
• economic history
• land utilization
• calum turvey
• hao hu
• republic of china
• farm survey
• Land Utilization in China (1937)
• nutritional poverty
• tenancy issues
• land productivity
• surplus labor
• workers’ incomes
• credit supply
• analytical methods

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

  Hao Hu, Funing Zhong

• Cornell University, Ithaca, USA

  Calum G. Turvey

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.

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