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Mostly building on his doctoral dissertation in economics for the European University Institute, Zhou (agricultural economics, U. of Florence, Italy) first sets out economic theories of sustainable development in relation to practical issues. He finds the final obstacle to sustainable rural development to be decreasing parcel size and increased fragmentation of land due to population growth, and the inefficient use of land by party-time and absent small farmers. In that context, he then analyzes the significance of the Japanese model, a new model, and the Chinese model, and explores applications of the new model beyond monsoon Asia. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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CONTENTS
List of Figures = ⅷ
List of Tables = ⅸ
List of Abbreviations = xiii
List of Transliterations = xv
Glossary = xvii
Acknowledgements = xxi
PART ONE THEORIES = 1
 1. Introduction = 3
  1.1 Monsoon Asia = 3
  1.2 A Remaining Obstacle Unresolved by the Japanese Model = 4
  1.3 The Chinese Model = 8
  1.4 The Agenda of the Book = 11
  1.5 The Analytical Approach = 16
  1.6 Tentative Contributions of the Book = 20
 2. Theories of Monsoon Asia Rice Economy and Variable Mixed Economies = 31
  2.1 A Rice-Based Agriculture in Monsoon Asia = 31
  2.2 The Prewar Vicious Circle of Poverty in Monsoon Asia = 35
  2.3 The Postwar Initial Conditions for Development in Monsoon Asia = 54
  2.4 Variable Mixed Economies = 55
 3. Theory of Property Rights = 63
  3.1 Incentives under Private Ownership and Possession of Public Assets = 64
  3.2 Achieving Pareto Efficiency according to Coase = 71
  3.3 Relaxing Hypotheses of the Coase Theorem = 82
  3.4 The Evolution of Property Rights Structures = 100
  3.5 Relevant Concepts of Private Ownership = 103
  Appendix 3.1 How to Carry Out Land Consolidation - An International Comparison = 107
PART TWO THE JAPANESE MODEL AND A NEW MODEL = 121
 4. The Japanese Model versus the Last Obstacle = 123
  4.1 The Significance of the Japanese Model = 123
  4.2 Theoretical Discussion = 126
  4.3 The Remaining Obstacle = 131
  4.4 Theoretical Discussion = 150
 5. A New Model for Sustainable Rural Development = 154
  5.1 Conjectural Proposal 5.1 = 154
  5.2 The Pioneering Chinese Elementary Cooperatives = 166
  5.3 A Possible Global Applicability of the New Model = 176
  5.4 Dynamic Determination of Farm Size = 178
  5.5 Theoretical Discussion = 178
  5.6 Other Rice-Based Economies under Private Land Ownership in Monsoon Asia = 184
PART THREE THE CHINESE MODEL = 189
 6. The Chinese Model and the Emergence of the Last Obstacle = 191
  6.1 The Chinese Model in General = 191
  6.2 Theoretical Discussion = 202
  6.3 The Emergence of the Last Obstacle = 209
  6.4 Theoretical Discussion = 221
 7. Overcoming the Last Obstacle in the Chinese Model = 223
  7.1 A Large-Scale Farming and Collective - Individual Mixed Economy = 223
  7.2 Functioning of Large-Scale Farming = 248
  7.3 Ascending a Higher Stage - Preventing Food Overproduction and Improving the Environment = 277
  7.4 Theoretical Discussion = 288
 8. Other Rice-Based Economies under Public Land Ownership in Monsoon Asia = 295
  8.1 Different Levels of Land Tenure Reforms = 296
  8.2 An Analysis of the Nominal State - But De Facto Private - Land Ownership = 300
  8.3 Conjectural Proposals 8.1, 8.2 and 8.3 = 308
PART FOUR APPLICATIONS OF THE NEW MODEL BEYOND MONSOON ASIA = 311
 9. The American Model and the Crowding Out of Small Farmers = 313
  9.1 The General Trend in the USA = 313
  9.2 The Underlying Economic Forces = 333
  9.3 Government Interventions = 344
 10. Application of the New Model in the USA = 370
  10.1 Seeking a Possible Solution = 370
  10.2 A Comparison among the American, Japanese, Chinese Models and the New Model = 390
 11. Implementations of the New Model in the OECD, EU, CEECs, CIS, and Rest of the World = 396
  11.1 In Rural Areas at Different Wage Economies = 396
  11.2 In OECD and EU Countries in General = 397
  11.3 In CEECs and the CIS(27 Countries) = 399
Bibliography = 434
Index = 490