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Chinese Agricultural Extension and Uneven Economic Growth, 1903-1937: A Case Study of Shandong Province

Stewart, Spencer Dean
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437671570

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2015, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, East Asian Studies.
In 1929, the Nationalist Party (Guomindang) passed a set of regulations to establish a modern agricultural extension system in China. During this time, agricultural extension was viewed as a means to achieve national regeneration amid economic, political, and social uncertainty. The objectives of this thesis are to explore the historical development and economic impact of systematic agricultural extension in Republican China (1912-1949). State-run agricultural experiment stations and schools, first established in the late Qing (1644-1911), laid a foundation for institutional agricultural extension services during the Republican era. The establishment of a centralized system of extension in 1929 represents continuity in state-led development and diffusion of agricultural innovations from imperial China. Taking the Shandong Academy of Agricultural Sciences (SAAS) as a case study, this thesis argues that institutionalized agricultural research and extension during the Republican era laid a foundation for the People’s Republic of China (1949-present). Agricultural research and educational institutions established in Shandong in the late Qing and Republican eras made possible the rapid expansion of institutions such as SAAS after 1949. Agricultural research and extension efforts during the Republican era led to economic growth that was geographically uneven. The diffusion and cultivation of improved cotton varieties in Shandong through the extension system illustrates that extension efforts were largely focused on regions and counties within close geographic proximity to extension centers. Cultivation of improved varieties was concentrated around adjacent counties to the extension centers, leading to economic growth that was spatially uneven.
Karen Mancl, M. (Advisor)
Christopher Reed, A. (Committee Member)
Philip Brown, C. (Committee Member)
131 p.
Agriculture; Asian Studies; History
China; agricultural extension; experiment stations; cotton

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  • Stewart, S. D. (2015). Chinese Agricultural Extension and Uneven Economic Growth, 1903-1937: A Case Study of Shandong Province [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437671570

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Stewart, Spencer. Chinese Agricultural Extension and Uneven Economic Growth, 1903-1937: A Case Study of Shandong Province. 2015. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437671570.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Stewart, Spencer. "Chinese Agricultural Extension and Uneven Economic Growth, 1903-1937: A Case Study of Shandong Province." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2015. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1437671570

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