Evolution of Agricultural Credit during China’s Republican Era, 1912–1949

Hong Fu is Associate Professor at Shandong University of Finance and Economics, China. Her research interests include economic history, rural finance and crop insurance. Calum G. Turvey holds the W.I. Myers Professorship of Agricultural Finance in the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business and College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University, USA.

• 1. Current Conditions of Rural Credit in China.- 2. China’s Sorrow.- 3. Low-Level Equilibrium and Fractional Poverty Traps.- 4. Traditional Forms of Credit in Rural China.- 5. Emergence of Modern Rural Financial Institutions in the Warlord Era: 1912–28.- 6. Estimating the Demand for Farm Credit in the Republican Era.- 7. The China International Famine Relief Commission.- 8. Rural Reconstruction.- 9. A  Blueprint for Credit under Rural Reconstruction.- 10. Evolution of Cooperative Financial System: 1927–49.- 11. Chinese Communists, Border Currency, and Agricultural Credit during Wartime.- 12. The Farmers Bank of China.- 13. Nong Ben Ju, the Farm Credit Bureau, and KMT’s Agrarian Policy.- 14. Successes and Failures of Agricultural Cooperatives and Credit Societies.