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Landownership concentration in China: the Buck Survey revisited
Modern China • 12 (3) • Published In 1986 • Pages: 259-360
By: Arrigo, Linda Gail.
Abstract
This study recalculated some of John L. Buck's famous land survey data from the 1930s to determine factors that might have contributed to social inequality. Specifically, it examines land ownership, rents, productivity, and management, along with climate and transportation (to markets). The study also calculates a general subsistence quota above which a farming household produces a surplus. The findings suggest that land productivity, especially double cropping, and population density are most likely predictors of surplus production which in turn predicts landownership concentration and social inequality.
- Subjects
- Population
- Tillage
- Initiation of judicial proceedings
- Real property
- Renting and leasing
- Production and supply
- Labor supply and employment
- Classes
- Household
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- not applicable
- Coverage Date
- 1929-1933
- Coverage Place
- People's Republic of China
- Notes
- Linda Gail Arrigo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-360)
- LCCN
- 75642238
- LCSH
- China--Social life and customs