Small-scale industries in rural areas in China are today an essential element of regional development programs. This monograph analyzes two main development str

This collection of papers presented at an international conference in 1987 provides a comprehensive analysis of China's booming rural non-state industrial secto

QUOTE...two issues remain central to the [Chinese] government's rural development objectives: food security and poverty alleviation. China has made remarkable p

"A distinctive and important contribution."—Thomas P. Bernstein, author of Up to the Mountains and Down to the Villages