Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-255) and index.
Budgets, cadres and local state capacity in rural Jiangsu / George P. Brown -- Finance system and the development of rural towns in China / Wolfgang Taubmann -- Multi-stakeholder cooperation in China : changing ownership and management of rural enterprises / Jenny Clegg -- Rural industry : institutional aspects of China's economic transformation / Pei Xiaolin -- Soft budget constraints in Chinese rural enterprises / Örjan Sjöberg and Zhang Gang -- Grain and meat in China : agricultural development in two counties of Henan and Jiangxi / Claude Aubert with the co-operation of Lai Xiufang -- Adaptive land-use strategies of Sichuan smallholders : subsistence production and agricultural intensification in a land-scarce poverty area of China / Johanna Pennarz -- Two-way changes : kinship in contemporary rural China / Huang Xiyi -- Rural women and reform in a north Chinese village / Zhang Weiguo -- Rural labour mobility in China / Hein Mallee -- Gender and migration in China / Delia Davin