Growth of Market Relations in Post-Reform Rural China

This book based on in-depth field research at the local level assesses the different factors that are contributing to the transition to a market economy and the growth of networks in rural China. It analyses the different socio-economic actors - peasant households out-migrants family businesses and peasant entrepreneurs uses the key concept of markets as a nexus of social networks and identifies three different kinds of 'social capital' - human capital political capital/status and network capital.This book demonstrates the importance of socio-political networks and highlights significant regional differences.