Chinese Agriculture in the 1930s Investigations into John Lossing Bu
This edited volume analyzes land utilization data from farm surveys taken in China between 1929 and 1933. This data, which was the foundation for John Lossing Buck’s seminal work Land Utilization in China (1937), was thought lost to history unti
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nese Agriculture in the 1930s
Hao Hu • Funing Zhong Calum G. Turvey Editors
Chinese Agriculture in the 1930s Investigations into John Lossing Buck’s Rediscovered ‘Land Utilization in China’ Microdata
Editors Hao Hu College of Economics and Management Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing, China
Funing Zhong College of Economics and Management Nanjing Agricultural University Nanjing, China
Calum G. Turvey Cornell University Ithaca, NY, USA
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Preface
This book is comprised of a number of papers drawn from the works of John Lossing Buck’s 1937 publication of Land Use in China. Buck’s study was based on a survey of 16,786 farms, 168 localities, and 38,256 farm families in 22 provinces in China between 1929 and 1933. It was a landmark study in the sense that no previous widescale study had attempted to provide a geographic and economic map of Chinese agriculture. Although frequent references have been made to Buck’s study, these focused on the three statistical volumes prepared by Buck and his colleagues. That work was prepared by abacus, and the final written volume was driven largely by the statistical information and cross-tabulations that could be taken at the time. Where does this book fit in? Around the year 2000 a number of paper- wrapped packages were uncovered at the Nanjing Agricultural University (NJAU). The packages contained the actual paper spreadshee
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