System, Technology, and the Development of Chinese Agriculture (Contemporary Economics Series)

Author: Lin Yifu
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Publish Date: 2005-10-01
Features: The first five articles explore the reasons for the change in agricultural systems and the impact of different agricultural systems on rural development; the next four articles will discuss the selection, innovation, and diffusion of agricultural technology under the socialist system; the last article discusses the history of five thousand years, explaining why China's technology was ahead of other countries in pre-modern society but fell behind the West in modern society.