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Spring 2004

ISSN 0890-913X

Volume 19, Number 2

Categories: Spring 2004 | Economic and social Development

Food, Fiber and Fee Simple Ownership in the People's Republic of China

Paul Chandler, Ball State University

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Food,FiberandFeeSimpleOwnershipinthePeople=sRepublicofChinaPaulChandlerBallStateUniversityShamu,orChinese-Fir(Cunninghamialanceolate),hastheworld=slongesthistoryofmanagementfortimberproduction(ChinaWoodyplantFloraCommittee[CWPFC],1981;Yu,1983;Menzies,1985,1988a,1988b).About1200yearsagoinsouthernShejiangProvinceitalsobecamethefocusoftheworld=soldestknowntimberscalingsystem,theLongquanMajie(Xia,etal.,1979).Thissystemestimatedtimbervaluebaseduponloglengthandclarity,butunlikemostscalingsystemsnotandiameter.Thismeanssmaller,usuallyyoungertrees,aslongastheymeetacommercialminimum,areofequalpervolumevalueaslarger,usuallyoldertrees.Variousproductionsystemscalledshamujianzhong(Ashamuspace-planting)werebuiltaroundanddependentuponagriculturalinter-croppingwithinasmallstandofshamu,usuallyonehectareorless.SeveralvariantsofthissystemhadbeeninpracticeforoveramillenniumacrossthehighlandsofFujian,GuizhouandotherProvincesofsouthChinauntila1958politicalcampaigncausedthesystemtobeappliedonacollectivizedscaleofhundredsoreventhousandsofhectares.OnthisscaleAgreatlosses@wereincurredthroughsoilerosion,waterloss,andothersimilarills(Yu,1983;Menzies,1988a).Reactionstotheselossesandtheassociated1960-61famineseffectivelyendedtheentiresystembythemid-1960s,althoughafewvariantswerepracticedinisolatedareasasrecentlyasthelate1970sduringtheuncertaintiesofauthorityofthepost-Maotransition.Forthehighlandpeasantseliminationofthesystemalsomeanteliminationofitsinterplantedfoodcropsaswellastheirincentivestorestock,tendandprotectthemostvaluableforestsinsouthChina.

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Title	Food, Fiber and Fee Simple Ownership in the People's Republic of China
Authors/Creators:	Paul Chandler, Ball State University
Year:	2004
Volume:	19
Number:	2
Pages:	61 - 85
Publisher:	The Association of Private Enterprise Education
ISSN:	0890-913X
Document Type:	Articles
Keywords:	Economic development, Private ownership, Environmental management, Standard of living, Agricultural enterprises, Government policy, Market

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Chandler, Paul / 2004. "Food, Fiber and Fee Simple Ownership in the People's Republic of China." The Journal of Private Enterprise, 19(2): 61-85.