ABSTRACT
The prime focus of this study was clarification of the interrelationship between marketization and socioeconomic actors in post-reform rural China by analysing microdata collected through field studies. The main issues addressed in each chapter have been summarized in Chapter 1 and will not be repeated here. This chapter describes the results of the analyses in each of the previous chapters and summarizes how this work on the Chinese marketization, which is a process that combines economic development and system transformation, can be applied in Asian studies, development studies and studies of economic transition. The key concepts are: markets considered as a nexus of social networks; underdevelopment of markets; the triadic relationship of market, state and society; imbalances in the market development at the semi-micro level; and the continuity and vitality of small peasant households.
