1. See, for example, Kym Anderson and Rod Tyers, ‘Economic growth and market liberalization in China: implication for agricultural trade’, The Developing Economies, Vol. 25 No. 2 (1987), pp. 124–51;
2. Nicholas R. Lardy, Foreign Trade and Economic Reform in China, 1978–1990 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992).
3. Mark Selden, The Political Economy of Chinese Development (New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1993), p. 167.
4. See Zhang Xiaohe, ‘Urban-rural isolation and its impact on China’s production and trade pattern’, China Economic Review, Vol. 3, No. 1 (1992), p. 92.
5. See a theoretical analysis of Zhang Xiaohe, Christopher Findlay, and Andrew Watson, ‘Growth of rural enterprises: impact on rural-urban relations,’ Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 31, No. 4 (1995)