Notes on the contributors -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction: agro-food markets in China in light of economic sociology -- The theoretical foundation of agro-food markets -- Markets as political institutions -- An approach to food quality in China : agenda for a future research -- From producers to consumers: the market for food products -- Post-reform grain markets and prices in China -- China's sugar under globalization forces : market structures and state decision making in the context of liberalization -- A diachronic analysis of the beef industry -- Understanding the growth and the decline of small-farm productions in the swine industry in Guangdong province and in China from 1980 to 2010 -- From farm to factory : fibres and biofuels -- China's cotton market as a strategic action field -- Drivers and dynamics of the Chinese wool market -- Development of contract farming in Chinese sericulture and silk industry -- Growth, globalization and upgrading of the Chinese cashmere industry -- Fuels for the future? the emerging architecture in China's liquid biofuels market -- Conclusion: economic sociology and the political economy of China's agro-food markets.
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