New Perspectives on the Lease Relationship - Landlords, Farmers, and Rent

Author: Gao Ling
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Publish Date: 2005-07-01
Features: ;This series of monographs will, like the journal China Rural Studies, select and publish the best research from both domestic and international sources. Academic monographs are the basic building blocks of a discipline. High-level monographs should not only make new empirical contributions but also derive new analytical concepts from them. The integration and accumulation of empirical research and theoretical concepts, rather than the adoption of fashionable models, ideological dogmas, or simple accumulations of empirical studies, are the correct paths to advancing a discipline.
This small book, as its title suggests, explores the historical relationship between peasants and landlords, as well as related issues.
The book consists of six chapters, including: The Origin of the Problem, The Decline in Rent Collection, The Causes of the Decline in Rent, An Analysis of Peasant Rent Resistance, Governmental Laws and Policies, and Some Concluding Remarks.