Chinese Agriculture in the 1930s

Chapter 1 China’s Agriculture in the 1930s: An Overview

Chapter 2 John Lossing Buck and Land Utilization in China

Chapter 3 Calamities and Conflict Affecting Rural China 1929–1933

Chapter 4 The Discovery and Restoration of Buck’s Original Data

Chapter 5 Reliability of John Lossing Buck’s Land Utilization Survey Data: A Preliminary Test of Grain Yields

Chapter 6 Tenancy Issues in Northwest China During the Republican Era

Chapter 7 Regional Differences in Surplus Agricultural Labor During China’s Republican Era, Based on Buck’s Rural Survey Data

Chapter 8 Agricultural Poverty and Inequality in 1930s China: Estimates of Gini Gini Coefficient and Engel Engel Coefficient Coefficients from Buck’s Data

Chapter 9 An Analysis on the Inverse Relationship between Yield and Farm Size in Rural China in the 1930s

Chapter 10 The Relationship Between Farm Size Farm size and Land Productivity in Early Twentieth-Century China

Chapter 11 Farm Credit Demand and Supply in 1930s China

Chapter 12 The Change in China’s Cropland Utilization and Productivity Over Nearly a Century in China: A Comparison Study Based on Buck’s Survey

Chapter 13 A Comparison of Certain Changes in Chinese Agricultural Operations between Buck’s Republican Era and Modern China

Chapter 14 Concluding Thoughts