Planning Chinese Agriculture

Kenneth R. Walker Lecturer in Economics, School of Oriental and African Studies University of London

• Part 1 The Background to Socialisation; Chapter 1 The Socialisation of Chinese Agriculture: Timing and Institutions; Part 2 The Economic Significance of the Private Sector of Agriculture; Chapter 2 The Economic Significance of the Private Sector of Agriculture to the Peasants; Chapter 3 The Economic Significance of the Private Sector of Agriculture to the Government; Part 3 Socialisation and the treatment of the Private Sector of Agriculture 1956 – 1962; Chapter 4 1956 – Autumn 1957: The First Round; Chapter 5 Autumn 1957 – Winter 1960: The Great Leap Forward, Communisation and Growing Agricultural Crisis; Chapter 6 1961 – 1962: Decentralisation in the Communes The Restoration of the Private Plot—in Theory and Practice; conclusion Concluding Remarks;