Evolution of the Land System in China Politicized Law?

"This is the first book to offer the reader an in-depth analysis of the role of law in China's great economic transformation, along with a comprehensive research on law and development theory and its practice in China. The book made a substantial contribution to the Chinese land system literature. The book covers the discussions of all significant evolution process and land reforms. It is a going debate on whether demarcated and secure property rights are essential to sustainable economic development, and land is an extremely important issue in China which in turn relates the role of state and the manner of dealing land ownership and other rights. It examines the hybrid dynamic of Chinese land law in the view of multi-layered stakeholders and their diverged incentives. The evolution has been shaped by various political and social forces, and the book demonstrates the nature of the law and how complicated the law in action is in transitional countries such as China. It is particularly noteworthy that the book's evaluation of western mainstream theories on property rights and their application in Chinese soil"--Unedited summary from book cover.