Xinyu Lu is one of China's most prominent scholars in the study of rural-urban inequities. She holds degrees from Anhui University, Zhejiang University, and Fudan University. Her research interests encompass media studies, visual culture, sociology, philosophy, and politically-grounded readings of history. Professor Lu spent 20 years on the faculty at the School of Journalism at Fudan University. Currently, she serves as the President of the International Communication Research Institute at East China Normal University. Professor Lu has an extensive publication record, with numerous books and essays in English, Chinese, French, and other languages.

• Chapter 1 Lenin’s Theory of the “American Path” and Russian/Soviet Capitalist Agriculture.- Chapter 2 The “American Path” and the Global Hegemony of U.S. Capitalist Agriculture.- Chapter 3 The “Prussian” Path, Militarism, and Late Capitalist Agriculture.- Chapter 4 The Importance of Revolutionary Land Reform.- Chapter 5 Marxist Feudal Theory, Qin Hui’s Theory of Division of the family assets, and Democracy.- Chapter 6 Agricultural problems in Khrushchev and Brezhnev times: The failure of the Soviet union’s “American Path” or State Capitalist Path.- Chapter 7 The “Greek/Roman Path”: the Conditions for Democracy and the “Ancient Welfare State”?.- Chapter 8 Asiatic Oriental Despotism and Marxist Thought.- Chapter 9 The Asiatic Mode of Production and Debates On the Chinese and Soviet (Russian) Revolutions and Their Paths in the 20th Century.- Chapter 10 Can China be de-Asianized and Europeanized?.