Michael Webber, Professor Emeritus, The School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Contents: Principal Leaders in the Central Government Since the 1982 Constitution 1. Development is Not a Dinner Party 2. Rich Wang’s Village: Marketing the Dairy Economy 3. Buying Out Collectives and Farms 4. ‘We Never Forcibly Evict Anybody, Except Those Who Refuse to Move’ 5. ‘May God Bless Our Injured Land...’ 6. Water Wallies 7. ‘The Miracle of Creation’ 8. Ethnicity, Poverty, Migration 9. Development is the Irrefutable Fact References Index

‘Webber is a great communicator readily challenging dogmas and opening up new and alternative ways of seeing and reading. His writing is lively, captivating, and jargon-free. . . It is undeniably an important, persuasive, and highly readable contribution to the scholarship on contemporary Chinese economy and society.’

Michael Webber, Professor Emeritus, The School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Contents: Principal Leaders in the Central Government Since the 1982 Constitution 1. Development is Not a Dinner Party 2. Rich Wang’s Village: Marketing the Dairy Economy 3. Buying Out Collectives and Farms 4. ‘We Never Forcibly Evict Anybody, Except Those Who Refuse to Move’ 5. ‘May God Bless Our Injured Land...’ 6. Water Wallies 7. ‘The Miracle of Creation’ 8. Ethnicity, Poverty, Migration 9. Development is the Irrefutable Fact References Index

‘Webber is a great communicator readily challenging dogmas and opening up new and alternative ways of seeing and reading. His writing is lively, captivating, and jargon-free. . . It is undeniably an important, persuasive, and highly readable contribution to the scholarship on contemporary Chinese economy and society.’

Michael Webber, Professor Emeritus, The School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Contents: Principal Leaders in the Central Government Since the 1982 Constitution 1. Development is Not a Dinner Party 2. Rich Wang’s Village: Marketing the Dairy Economy 3. Buying Out Collectives and Farms 4. ‘We Never Forcibly Evict Anybody, Except Those Who Refuse to Move’ 5. ‘May God Bless Our Injured Land...’ 6. Water Wallies 7. ‘The Miracle of Creation’ 8. Ethnicity, Poverty, Migration 9. Development is the Irrefutable Fact References Index

‘Webber is a great communicator readily challenging dogmas and opening up new and alternative ways of seeing and reading. His writing is lively, captivating, and jargon-free. . . It is undeniably an important, persuasive, and highly readable contribution to the scholarship on contemporary Chinese economy and society.’