ABSTRACT
China’s spectacular economic growth since the mid-1970s has, in large measure, been built upon a foundation of environmental degradation. Marketization and privatization-the mantras of the reform movement-have introduced new, qualitatively different, and deeply troubling environmental problems on top of those bequeathed by the collective period. In agriculture, these new problems will become increasingly apparent as more critical assessments are made of China’s rapid economic transformation.
