Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; CONTENTS; I: INTRODUCTION; II: A THEORY OF DISTRIBUTION IN THE AGRARIAN SECTOR; III: THE LAND MARKET IN PREWAR CHINA; IV: THE LOAN MARKET IN PREWAR CHINA; V: THE LABOR MARKET IN PREWAR CHINA; VI: THE AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION FUNCTION AND FACTOR PRODUCTIVITY IN PREWAR CHINESE AGRICULTURE; VII: AN ACTIVITY ANALYSIS APPROACH TO PRODUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT: MI-CH'ANG VILLAGE SAMPLE; VIII: SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS; APPENDIXES; II-A Proof of Relation between Number of Constraints and Number of Techniques
II-B Factor Allocation in the Presence of UncertaintyIII-A Choice-Theoretic Approaches to Rental Deposits; IV-A Average Family Incomes and the Distribution of Income in the Chinese Peasant Economy; V-A Estimation Procedure for Industrial Wage Structure Model; V-B Relationship between Capital/Land Ratio and Size of Farm; VI-A Notes on Data Derived from John L. Buck, Land Utilization in China, Statistical Volume; VI-B Weighted Output Data and the Estimation of an Aggregate Production Function; VI-C Specification of Land in Production Function Estimation; VI-D Locality Intercepts
VI-E The Simultaneous Equation Problem in the Estimation of the Chinese Agricultural Production FunctionVI-F Response to Fertilizer Applications and Technological Change in China; VI-G Grain Prices in Prewar China: Data and Sources; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY
