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ID28823
NAMEJ Ye
GIVEN NAMESJ
FAMILY NAMEYe
SIGNATUREYE J
AFFILIATIONSChina Agricultural University
ORCID0000-0003-4917-3431
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS43
TOTAL CITATIONS734
AUTHOR COUNT43
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX14
  • Global and regional disease burden of HIV/Aids from 1990 to 2021 and projections to 2030

    Open Access•Yan Lu, Youwang Lu et al.•ARTICLE•BMC Public Health•2025

    HIV/AIDS disease burden varies by region, sex, and age. The global burden of HIV/AIDS is substantial in low-income regions, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our study offers valuable epidemiological evidence for future research on the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS

  • Death of agrarian societies by a thousand cuts: Non-corporate ‘pin prick’ and medium-scale land grabs

    Open Access•Saturnino M Borras Jr, Saturnino M Borra et al.•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2025•References: 17

    In terms of scale, the land rush has unleashed the interlinked categories: corporate large-scale, non-corporate pin prick and medium-scale land grabs. For the local population, the latter two types are ubiquitous parts of the land rush, yet these tend to be invisible to media and academic researchers. These are land ‘control grabbing’ done in a variety of ways: legal and illegal, openly or by stealth, with or without use of extra-economic coercio…

  • Migrants, farmers and farmworkers and the politics of land and labour: An Introduction to the Symposium

    Open Access•Saturnino M Borras Jr, Saturnino M Borra et al.•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2025•References: 50

    In this article, framing and introducing the Special Issue on ‘Migrants, Farmers and Farmworkers’, we argue that the interaction between structural, institutional and political dynamics shapes the character and trajectory of social relations among migrants, farmers and farmworkers, which in turn influence or could influence the character and trajectory of broader struggles within and against capitalism, and the building of systemic alternatives. …

  • Migrant labour flows and interconnected agrarian transformations in Southern China

    Open Access•Yunan Xu, Chunyu Wang et al.•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2025•Cited by: 6•References: 23

    While contemporary debates about agrarian transformations that include topics like the persistence of family farms, agrarian capital accumulation, and simple reproduction squeeze remain vibrant, discussions about the increasingly significant role of migrant wage labour, which further complicates these processes, remain limited. In this paper, we argue that the process of capitalist accumulation in some sections of the agrarian and food system sec…

  • Migrant (farm)workers and farmers in China and Myanmar: A Perspective From the Sugarcane Sector

    Open Access•Chunyu Wang, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2025•Cited by: 4•References: 23

    In this paper we argue that the most critical factor that shapes the character and trajectory of the sugarcane sector in China is neither land nor labour, individually, but rather the interactions of social dynamics around land and labour, and specifically migrant labour. We argue that not only that the political economy of land and labour together drive agrarian transformation in the sugarcane sector, but more precisely that it is the process of…

  • Mining what is not mine: Artisanal gold mining in Gwanda, Zimbabwe

    Open Access•Edmore Mwandiringana, J Ye•ARTICLE•The Extractive Industries and…•2023•References: 16

  • The Children of China’s Great Migration

    J Ye•ARTICLE•The China Journal•2023

  • Embedding the poor into the industrial system: What we can learn from poverty alleviation through industrial development in China

    Lu Pan, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2023•Cited by: 1•References: 37

    Poverty alleviation through industrial development in China contributes to the long-standing debate on how the poor could benefit from the development. It creates four industrial organizing approaches (i.e. households operating independently, intermediary organizations providing linkages, modern enterprise leading and asset income distribution) and three ways of participation for the rural poor (i.e. participating as petty commodity producers, wa…

  • Reading markets politically: On the Transformativity and Relevance of Peasant Markets

    Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2023•Cited by: 9•References: 61

    This paper discusses how newly constructed peasant markets are increasingly extending beyond the boundaries (and limits) of the local. This brings their new potentials in relevance and transformativity. The paper includes a comprehensive definition of peasant markets. It is also meant as a reply to those who argue that capitalism cannot be fought by using one of its main mechanisms: 'the market'. By presenting three case studies that describe dif…

  • Experience the world as a weak person

    J Ye•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2022

    On 23 June 2019, as Dean of the College of Humanities and Development Studies (COHD) at China Agricultural University, I delivered a speech entitled ‘Experience the world as a weak person’ at the graduation ceremony. However, in our society, everyone wants to become strong, and no one wants to be weak. It is observed that in Chinese society the increase in material wealth has gone hand in hand with an increase in rage and hostility. One of the re…

  • Soil as a site of struggle: Differentiated rifts under different modes of farming in intensive commercial agriculture in urbanizing China

    Huijiao Xu, J Ye•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    The metabolic rifts resulted from the rural urban divide and agricultural commodification require remedy with synthetic fertilizers, multiple labour practices and other methods of repair in urbanizing China. The case study in North China shows that the metabolic rift unfolds in an uneven way in different farmer groups with differential labour patterns and livelihood strategies. Simple commodity producers have generally greater potential than capi…

  • Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements

    Open Access•Saturnino M Borras Jr, Saturnino M Borras et al.•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2021•Cited by: 22•References: 33

    This paper examines the situation of rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar during the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at the circumstances of the migrants prior to the global health emergency, before exploring possibilities for a post-pandemic future for this stratum of the working people by raising critical questions addressed to agrarian movements. It does this by focusing on the nature and dynamics of the nexus of land and labou…

  • Battle for legitimacy: Revisiting autochthony and (re)invented authority in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas

    Edmore Mwandiringana, J Ye•ARTICLE•Review of African Political Economy•2021•References: 13

    This study examines the intersection of autochthony and (re)invented claims of authority in Zimbabwe’s resettlement areas, exploring how traditional leaders and war veterans battle for legitimacy in the resettlement areas. It argues that despite the general view that chiefs are recognised by everyone in the rural areas, their legitimacy is being challenged and in some cases with the use of violence. Although chiefs are recognised as the legitimat…

  • Factors affecting flood-induced household vulnerability and health risks in Pakistan: The case of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Province

    Open Access•Ashfaq Ahmad Shah, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•International Journal of Disaster…•2020

  • Poverty Alleviation Practice and Theoretical Exploration Based on Small- Farm Household Production: A Case Study of a Small-farm “Nested Market” Poverty Alleviation Trial

    J Ye, Ye Jingzhong et al.•ARTICLE•Social Sciences in China•2020

    Market-oriented industry-type poverty alleviation has played an important role in targeted poverty alleviation in China, but this approach has had difficulty in obtaining comprehensive coverage of extremely poor small-farm households and faces many challenges. We therefore need to explore and innovate a variety of ways of alleviating poverty among poor small-farm households. A project for “poverty alleviation through nested market small-farm prod…

  • The incursions of extractivism: Moving From Dispersed Places to Global Capitalism

    J Ye, Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2020•Cited by: 100•References: 44

    The commonplace notion of extractivism relates to the production of value through physically extractive processes (mining, oil extraction, certain kinds of agriculture, etc.) where value generation is necessarily temporary and generally followed by barrenness and an inability to sustainably reproduce livelihoods in the affected habitat. In this article we aim to rethink extractivism in more general, politico-economic terms, i.e. as a particular w…

  • Flood hazards: Household vulnerability and resilience in disaster-prone districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan

    Open Access•Ashfaq Ahmad Shah, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•Natural Hazards•2018

  • BRICS, middle-income countries (MICs), and global agrarian transformations: Internal dynamics, regional trends, and international implications

    Ben Cousin, Saturnino M Borras Jr et al.•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2018•Cited by: 13•References: 22

    The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries are emerging as key sites of agricultural commodity production, distribution, circulation, and consumption, contributing to major shifts in the character of regional and global agro-food systems. Their growing importance within the world food economy presents new challenges for scholars, activists, policy-makers, and development practitioners. The articles in this collection are…

  • Determinants of flood risk mitigation strategies at household level: A case of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, Pakistan

    Open Access•Ashfaq Ahmad Shah, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•Natural Hazards•2017

  • Children of Great Development”: Difficulties in the Education and Development of Rural Left-Behind Children

    Open Access•Lu Pan, J Ye•ARTICLE•Chinese Education & Society•2017•Cited by: 3

    Over the past 30 years in China, the development ideology—a model of economic development that is characterized by urbanization, industrialization, and modernization—has brought about many changes and consequences, including increased migration by the rural population, sharp adjustments in urban-rural education policy, the decline of rural society, and a deteriorating educational context facing rural left-behind children. At the family level, lab…

  • Stayers in China's “hollowed‐out” villages: A counter narrative on massive rural–urban migration

    Open Access•J Ye•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2017•Cited by: 26•References: 6

    China has been undergoing a rapid industrialisation and urbanisation process with an ongoing transfer of people and economic resources from rural to urban areas. Labour migration from rural to urban areas has been massive and become a “rite of passage” for rural young people. There is a widespread view that modernisation and the subsequent transformation of peasants, agriculture, and the countryside have undermined agriculture and hollowed out ru…

  • The agrifood question and rural development dynamics in Brazil and China: Towards a protective ‘countermovement’

    F Escher, Schneider et al.•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 27

    This paper explores some features of the development paths taken by Brazil and China (two member countries of the BRICS grouping) in the current context of the crisis of neoliberal globalization and transformation of the political and economic world order. The authors use Polanyi’s ‘double movement’ thesis to argue that newly emerging rural development (RD) dynamics in China and Brazil are part of a protective ‘countermovement’, driven by actors …

  • Land control and crop booms inside China: Implications for how we think about the global land rush

    Saturnino M Borra, Juan Liu et al.•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2017•Cited by: 11•References: 21

    This paper aims to broaden the scope of analysis of the contemporary global land rush by examining crop booms not only outside, but inside China; and investment flows not only from China, but also within and into China. It does so by examining the eucalyptus and sugarcane sectors in southern China, which have witnessed investment booms during the past decade, with capital being infused by both domestic capital and foreign capital, including Finni…

  • Left-behind elderly: Shouldering a disproportionate share of production and reproduction in supporting China's industrial development

    J Ye, Congzhi He et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2017•Cited by: 11•References: 23

  • From a virtuous cycle of rural-urban education to urban-oriented rural basic education in China: An explanation of the failure of China’s Rural School Mapping Adjustment policy

    Open Access•Jing Rao, J Ye•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2016•Cited by: 10•References: 9

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  • Differentiated childhoods: Impacts of rural labor migration on left-behind children in China

    J Ye, Ye Jingzhong et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2011•Cited by: 103•References: 18

    This article draws on data from research that includes 400 children who lived separately from their migrant parents in 10 rural communities in China, to explore the deep impacts of rural parents' migration on the care-giving and nurturing of children left behind. It shows that parent migration has brought about multiple impacts, mostly negative, on the lives of children, such as increased workloads, little study tutoring and supervision, and abov…

  • The incursions of extractivism: Moving From Dispersed Places to Global Capitalism

    J Ye, Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2020•Cited by: 100•References: 44

    The commonplace notion of extractivism relates to the production of value through physically extractive processes (mining, oil extraction, certain kinds of agriculture, etc.) where value generation is necessarily temporary and generally followed by barrenness and an inability to sustainably reproduce livelihoods in the affected habitat. In this article we aim to rethink extractivism in more general, politico-economic terms, i.e. as a particular w…

  • Internal migration and left-behind populations in China

    J Ye, Chunyu Wang et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2013•Cited by: 67•References: 89

    The astonishing scale of internal migration in China since 1980s can be compared to only a few cases in world history. The migration gave birth to a vast number of peasant workers with their family members left behind in rural communities. Dominant studies on migration address mainly the following questions: why people migrate, what impacts migration has brought about, and how to cope with such positive or negative influences. This review paper b…

  • Land Transfer and the Pursuit of Agricultural Modernization inChina

    Open Access•J Ye•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2015•Cited by: 66•References: 33

    Agriculture, countryside and peasantry have been priority concerns of theChinese government, with land and agriculture being the most crucial. With a growing population, less arable land and often relatively low-quality land,Chinese peasant agriculture has been undergoing a form of modernization. While peasants enjoy land-contract rights as a result of theHouseholdResponsibilitySystem (HRS), the state has been promoting transfer of land-use right…

  • Rural development through the construction of new, nested, markets: Comparative perspectives from China, Brazil and the European Union

    Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2012•Cited by: 64•References: 26

    This article discusses and compares the rural development processes and practices currently occurring in China, Brazil and the European Union. Although these are strongly rooted in the specificities of time and space, they also share important commonalities. We argue that rural development can be viewed as an evolving set of responses to market failures. A key element of these responses is that they are unfolding through the construction of new m…

  • Lonely Sunsets: Impacts of Rural–urban Migration on the Left‐behind Elderly in Rural China

    Open Access•Congzhi He, J Ye•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2013•Cited by: 44•References: 6

    Drawing on the data from the research that samples 400 elderly who lived separately from their migrant children in 10 rural communities in China, this paper examines how the outmigration of rural youth shapes the situation of their older kin and analyses the consequences of the rural–urban migration for the old‐age support system. The research finds that a large scale of rural labour force has been drained off from rural societies and placed in a…

  • Left-behind women: Gender exclusion and inequality in rural-urban migration in China

    J Ye, Huifang Wu et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2016•Cited by: 27•References: 12

  • Rural politics in contemporary China

    E T Yeh, Kevin J O''Brien et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2013•Cited by: 27•References: 46

    We examine overarching themes in the contributions, including critiques of neo-liberalism, rural-urban linkages, the relevance of mixed methods and cross-disciplinary approaches, the need to engage social theory, and variation across space and time. At the same time, we provide an overview of rural Chinese politics and explain that the goal of the collection was to bring findings that have appeared in area studies or disciplinary outlets into con…

  • Stayers in China's “hollowed‐out” villages: A counter narrative on massive rural–urban migration

    Open Access•J Ye•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2017•Cited by: 26•References: 6

    China has been undergoing a rapid industrialisation and urbanisation process with an ongoing transfer of people and economic resources from rural to urban areas. Labour migration from rural to urban areas has been massive and become a “rite of passage” for rural young people. There is a widespread view that modernisation and the subsequent transformation of peasants, agriculture, and the countryside have undermined agriculture and hollowed out ru…

  • Left-behind children: The social price of China's economic boom

    J Ye, Ye Jingzhong•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2011•Cited by: 24•References: 9

    Ye Jingzhong Walking amongst the tall buildings in a modern city of China will remind us of the countless rural laborers who perform the back-breaking work that supports urban construction and econ

  • Multiple job holding in rural villages and the Chinese road to development

    Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2010•Cited by: 24•References: 26

    This paper examines some of the interrelations that exist between rural China's peasant economy and the wider economy in which it is embedded. In doing so it focuses on the circular flows that link town and countryside. Multiple job holding is strategic in this respect. The paper draws on research undertaken in a peasant village in Hebei Province. The research highlights some remarkable differences that exist between development processes in Chin…

  • Bringing Agriculture Back In: The Central Place of Agrarian Change in RuralChina Studies

    Open Access•Q F Zhang, Carlos Oya et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2015•Cited by: 23•References: 42

    Since the mid-2000s, rural development and politics inChina has entered a new phase that revolves around what the central government calls 'agricultural modernization'. Transforming the once-dominant smallholding, family-based agriculture has become a focal point of the government's programme of rural rejuvenation, where a range of economic changes unleashed by urbanization and industrialization also converge. We argue that in this new context, a…

  • Rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar, Covid-19, and agrarian movements

    Open Access•Saturnino M Borras Jr, Saturnino M Borras et al.•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2021•Cited by: 22•References: 33

    This paper examines the situation of rurally rooted cross-border migrant workers from Myanmar during the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks at the circumstances of the migrants prior to the global health emergency, before exploring possibilities for a post-pandemic future for this stratum of the working people by raising critical questions addressed to agrarian movements. It does this by focusing on the nature and dynamics of the nexus of land and labou…

  • Peasants, time and the land: The social organization of farming in China

    Open Access•Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2014•Cited by: 17•References: 10

  • Hollow Lives: Women Left Behind in RuralChina

    Open Access•Huifang Wu, J Ye•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2016•Cited by: 14•References: 11

    This paper explores the situation of women left behind in villages when men out-migrate for work and what it implies for gender relations in ruralChina. It is based on questionnaire survey data that covers 400 left-behind women and extensive interviews in 10 rural communities. It reveals how the women take on multiple family responsibilities including mainly family care and agricultural production, and how they maintain their marital relationship…

  • BRICS, middle-income countries (MICs), and global agrarian transformations: Internal dynamics, regional trends, and international implications

    Ben Cousin, Saturnino M Borras Jr et al.•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2018•Cited by: 13•References: 22

    The BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) countries are emerging as key sites of agricultural commodity production, distribution, circulation, and consumption, contributing to major shifts in the character of regional and global agro-food systems. Their growing importance within the world food economy presents new challenges for scholars, activists, policy-makers, and development practitioners. The articles in this collection are…

  • Land control and crop booms inside China: Implications for how we think about the global land rush

    Saturnino M Borra, Juan Liu et al.•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2017•Cited by: 11•References: 21

    This paper aims to broaden the scope of analysis of the contemporary global land rush by examining crop booms not only outside, but inside China; and investment flows not only from China, but also within and into China. It does so by examining the eucalyptus and sugarcane sectors in southern China, which have witnessed investment booms during the past decade, with capital being infused by both domestic capital and foreign capital, including Finni…

  • Left-behind elderly: Shouldering a disproportionate share of production and reproduction in supporting China's industrial development

    J Ye, Congzhi He et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2017•Cited by: 11•References: 23

  • From a virtuous cycle of rural-urban education to urban-oriented rural basic education in China: An explanation of the failure of China’s Rural School Mapping Adjustment policy

    Open Access•Jing Rao, J Ye•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2016•Cited by: 10•References: 9

  • Reading markets politically: On the Transformativity and Relevance of Peasant Markets

    Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2023•Cited by: 9•References: 61

    This paper discusses how newly constructed peasant markets are increasingly extending beyond the boundaries (and limits) of the local. This brings their new potentials in relevance and transformativity. The paper includes a comprehensive definition of peasant markets. It is also meant as a reply to those who argue that capitalism cannot be fought by using one of its main mechanisms: 'the market'. By presenting three case studies that describe dif…

  • Local State Corporatism or Neo- Guanxilism ? Observations from the county level of government in China

    Chunyu Wang, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary China•2014•Cited by: 7

    Chinese economic and social development in the past three decades has been typically state-led, in which capital and government officials are gradually allied through guanxi—a social psychological network that connects individuals with continued exchanges of favours, emotions and resources. This transforms many traditional characteristics of guanxi and encodes it with new features deeply rooted in institutional settings in contemporary China, whi…

  • Migrant labour flows and interconnected agrarian transformations in Southern China

    Open Access•Yunan Xu, Chunyu Wang et al.•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2025•Cited by: 6•References: 23

    While contemporary debates about agrarian transformations that include topics like the persistence of family farms, agrarian capital accumulation, and simple reproduction squeeze remain vibrant, discussions about the increasingly significant role of migrant wage labour, which further complicates these processes, remain limited. In this paper, we argue that the process of capitalist accumulation in some sections of the agrarian and food system sec…

  • The agrifood question and rural development dynamics in Brazil and China: Towards a protective ‘countermovement’

    F Escher, Schneider et al.•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 27

    This paper explores some features of the development paths taken by Brazil and China (two member countries of the BRICS grouping) in the current context of the crisis of neoliberal globalization and transformation of the political and economic world order. The authors use Polanyi’s ‘double movement’ thesis to argue that newly emerging rural development (RD) dynamics in China and Brazil are part of a protective ‘countermovement’, driven by actors …

  • Migrant (farm)workers and farmers in China and Myanmar: A Perspective From the Sugarcane Sector

    Open Access•Chunyu Wang, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•Agriculture and Human Values•2025•Cited by: 4•References: 23

    In this paper we argue that the most critical factor that shapes the character and trajectory of the sugarcane sector in China is neither land nor labour, individually, but rather the interactions of social dynamics around land and labour, and specifically migrant labour. We argue that not only that the political economy of land and labour together drive agrarian transformation in the sugarcane sector, but more precisely that it is the process of…

  • Soil as a site of struggle: Differentiated rifts under different modes of farming in intensive commercial agriculture in urbanizing China

    Huijiao Xu, J Ye•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2022•Cited by: 3•References: 25

    The metabolic rifts resulted from the rural urban divide and agricultural commodification require remedy with synthetic fertilizers, multiple labour practices and other methods of repair in urbanizing China. The case study in North China shows that the metabolic rift unfolds in an uneven way in different farmer groups with differential labour patterns and livelihood strategies. Simple commodity producers have generally greater potential than capi…

  • Withdrawn: Direct regulation of food intake and hypothalamic gene expression by amino acids

    Open Access•Christopher D Morrison, Charles L White et al.•ARTICLE•Appetite•2006

  • The Disempowered Participation of the Women's Federation in International Development Projects

    J Ye, Ye Jingzhong•ARTICLE•Chinese Sociology & Anthropology•2008

  • Farmer Initiatives and Livelihood Diversification: From the Collective to a Market Economy in Rural China

    Open Access•J Ye, Yihuan Wang et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2009•Cited by: 3•References: 8

    This paper explores how, despite relatively undifferentiated economic, cultural and land tenure conditions, some farmers in a rural area of Hebei Province, north-east China, have managed to devise innovative livelihood activities that provide them with better living standards than the majority of villagers. The research concludes that the dynamics of farmer innovations emerge from a variety of factors: the building of effective social networks an…

  • Multiple job holding in rural villages and the Chinese road to development

    Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2010•Cited by: 24•References: 26

    This paper examines some of the interrelations that exist between rural China's peasant economy and the wider economy in which it is embedded. In doing so it focuses on the circular flows that link town and countryside. Multiple job holding is strategic in this respect. The paper draws on research undertaken in a peasant village in Hebei Province. The research highlights some remarkable differences that exist between development processes in Chin…

  • Left-behind children: The social price of China's economic boom

    J Ye, Ye Jingzhong•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2011•Cited by: 24•References: 9

    Ye Jingzhong Walking amongst the tall buildings in a modern city of China will remind us of the countless rural laborers who perform the back-breaking work that supports urban construction and econ

  • Differentiated childhoods: Impacts of rural labor migration on left-behind children in China

    J Ye, Ye Jingzhong et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2011•Cited by: 103•References: 18

    This article draws on data from research that includes 400 children who lived separately from their migrant parents in 10 rural communities in China, to explore the deep impacts of rural parents' migration on the care-giving and nurturing of children left behind. It shows that parent migration has brought about multiple impacts, mostly negative, on the lives of children, such as increased workloads, little study tutoring and supervision, and abov…

  • Rural development through the construction of new, nested, markets: Comparative perspectives from China, Brazil and the European Union

    Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2012•Cited by: 64•References: 26

    This article discusses and compares the rural development processes and practices currently occurring in China, Brazil and the European Union. Although these are strongly rooted in the specificities of time and space, they also share important commonalities. We argue that rural development can be viewed as an evolving set of responses to market failures. A key element of these responses is that they are unfolding through the construction of new m…

  • Lonely Sunsets: Impacts of Rural–urban Migration on the Left‐behind Elderly in Rural China

    Open Access•Congzhi He, J Ye•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2013•Cited by: 44•References: 6

    Drawing on the data from the research that samples 400 elderly who lived separately from their migrant children in 10 rural communities in China, this paper examines how the outmigration of rural youth shapes the situation of their older kin and analyses the consequences of the rural–urban migration for the old‐age support system. The research finds that a large scale of rural labour force has been drained off from rural societies and placed in a…

  • Terra, lavoro e produzione agricola in Cina: Meccanismi Di Intensificazione Basati Sul Lavoro

    Wang Chunyu, Van Der Ploeg Jan Douwe et al.•ARTICLE•SOCIOLOGIA URBANA E RURALE•2013•References: 3

    L’agricoltura cinese e fondamentalmente un’agricoltura contadina e la crescita del settore e un processo gestito dai contadini stessi, che l’hanno fatto principalmente attraverso l’intensificazione di lavoro. In questo testo gli autori discutono e spiegano i diversi meccanismi che giocano un ruolo nella notevole e recente crescita del settore agricolo cinese. Dati empirici sono stati raccolti in due villaggi di montagna della provincia di Hebei, …

  • Rural politics in contemporary China

    E T Yeh, Kevin J O''Brien et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2013•Cited by: 27•References: 46

    We examine overarching themes in the contributions, including critiques of neo-liberalism, rural-urban linkages, the relevance of mixed methods and cross-disciplinary approaches, the need to engage social theory, and variation across space and time. At the same time, we provide an overview of rural Chinese politics and explain that the goal of the collection was to bring findings that have appeared in area studies or disciplinary outlets into con…

  • Internal migration and left-behind populations in China

    J Ye, Chunyu Wang et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2013•Cited by: 67•References: 89

    The astonishing scale of internal migration in China since 1980s can be compared to only a few cases in world history. The migration gave birth to a vast number of peasant workers with their family members left behind in rural communities. Dominant studies on migration address mainly the following questions: why people migrate, what impacts migration has brought about, and how to cope with such positive or negative influences. This review paper b…

  • Local State Corporatism or Neo- Guanxilism ? Observations from the county level of government in China

    Chunyu Wang, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Contemporary China•2014•Cited by: 7

    Chinese economic and social development in the past three decades has been typically state-led, in which capital and government officials are gradually allied through guanxi—a social psychological network that connects individuals with continued exchanges of favours, emotions and resources. This transforms many traditional characteristics of guanxi and encodes it with new features deeply rooted in institutional settings in contemporary China, whi…

  • Peasants, time and the land: The social organization of farming in China

    Open Access•Jan Douwe Van Der Ploeg, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2014•Cited by: 17•References: 10

  • Effects of supplementing lactic acid bacteria on fecal microbiota, total cholesterol, triglycerides and bile acids in rats

    Open Access•J Zhi-min, Ju Zhimin et al.•ARTICLE•African Journal of Traditional…•2015

    Background: Probiotics (LAB) are normal components of the intestinal micro-flora in both humans and animals and its ingestion in decreasing the risk of atherosclerosis. In addition, the potential health effects of LAB were investigated by monitoring changes in intestinal micro-flora and lipid metabolism in a rat model.Materials and Methods: Rats were randomly assigned into four treatments and fecal samples were obtained on days 1, 3, 5, 9 and 14,…

  • Land Transfer and the Pursuit of Agricultural Modernization inChina

    Open Access•J Ye•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2015•Cited by: 66•References: 33

    Agriculture, countryside and peasantry have been priority concerns of theChinese government, with land and agriculture being the most crucial. With a growing population, less arable land and often relatively low-quality land,Chinese peasant agriculture has been undergoing a form of modernization. While peasants enjoy land-contract rights as a result of theHouseholdResponsibilitySystem (HRS), the state has been promoting transfer of land-use right…

  • Bringing Agriculture Back In: The Central Place of Agrarian Change in RuralChina Studies

    Open Access•Q F Zhang, Carlos Oya et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2015•Cited by: 23•References: 42

    Since the mid-2000s, rural development and politics inChina has entered a new phase that revolves around what the central government calls 'agricultural modernization'. Transforming the once-dominant smallholding, family-based agriculture has become a focal point of the government's programme of rural rejuvenation, where a range of economic changes unleashed by urbanization and industrialization also converge. We argue that in this new context, a…

  • From a virtuous cycle of rural-urban education to urban-oriented rural basic education in China: An explanation of the failure of China’s Rural School Mapping Adjustment policy

    Open Access•Jing Rao, J Ye•ARTICLE•Journal of Rural Studies•2016•Cited by: 10•References: 9

  • Hollow Lives: Women Left Behind in RuralChina

    Open Access•Huifang Wu, J Ye•ARTICLE•Journal of Agrarian Change•2016•Cited by: 14•References: 11

    This paper explores the situation of women left behind in villages when men out-migrate for work and what it implies for gender relations in ruralChina. It is based on questionnaire survey data that covers 400 left-behind women and extensive interviews in 10 rural communities. It reveals how the women take on multiple family responsibilities including mainly family care and agricultural production, and how they maintain their marital relationship…

  • Left-behind women: Gender exclusion and inequality in rural-urban migration in China

    J Ye, Huifang Wu et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2016•Cited by: 27•References: 12

  • Determinants of flood risk mitigation strategies at household level: A case of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, Pakistan

    Open Access•Ashfaq Ahmad Shah, J Ye et al.•ARTICLE•Natural Hazards•2017

  • Children of Great Development”: Difficulties in the Education and Development of Rural Left-Behind Children

    Open Access•Lu Pan, J Ye•ARTICLE•Chinese Education & Society•2017•Cited by: 3

    Over the past 30 years in China, the development ideology—a model of economic development that is characterized by urbanization, industrialization, and modernization—has brought about many changes and consequences, including increased migration by the rural population, sharp adjustments in urban-rural education policy, the decline of rural society, and a deteriorating educational context facing rural left-behind children. At the family level, lab…

  • Stayers in China's “hollowed‐out” villages: A counter narrative on massive rural–urban migration

    Open Access•J Ye•ARTICLE•Population Space and Place•2017•Cited by: 26•References: 6

    China has been undergoing a rapid industrialisation and urbanisation process with an ongoing transfer of people and economic resources from rural to urban areas. Labour migration from rural to urban areas has been massive and become a “rite of passage” for rural young people. There is a widespread view that modernisation and the subsequent transformation of peasants, agriculture, and the countryside have undermined agriculture and hollowed out ru…

  • The agrifood question and rural development dynamics in Brazil and China: Towards a protective ‘countermovement’

    F Escher, Schneider et al.•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2017•Cited by: 5•References: 27

    This paper explores some features of the development paths taken by Brazil and China (two member countries of the BRICS grouping) in the current context of the crisis of neoliberal globalization and transformation of the political and economic world order. The authors use Polanyi’s ‘double movement’ thesis to argue that newly emerging rural development (RD) dynamics in China and Brazil are part of a protective ‘countermovement’, driven by actors …

  • Land control and crop booms inside China: Implications for how we think about the global land rush

    Saturnino M Borra, Juan Liu et al.•ARTICLE•Globalizations•2017•Cited by: 11•References: 21

    This paper aims to broaden the scope of analysis of the contemporary global land rush by examining crop booms not only outside, but inside China; and investment flows not only from China, but also within and into China. It does so by examining the eucalyptus and sugarcane sectors in southern China, which have witnessed investment booms during the past decade, with capital being infused by both domestic capital and foreign capital, including Finni…

  • Left-behind elderly: Shouldering a disproportionate share of production and reproduction in supporting China's industrial development

    J Ye, Congzhi He et al.•ARTICLE•The Journal of Peasant Studies•2017•Cited by: 11•References: 23

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