Professor Christopher Bramall

Core Researcher

1989 PhD (Economics), Cambridge; 1983 BA (Economics), Cambridge.

Selected publications

(forthcoming 2007) Path Dependency and Industrialization in Rural China since 1978 , Oxford : Oxford University Press.

(2000) Sources of Chinese Economic Growth, 1978-1996 ( Oxford : Oxford University Press, 558 pages (included in the Oxford Scholarship Online archive launched in autumn 2003)

(1993) In Praise of Maoist Economic Planning , ( Oxford : Clarendon Press, 393 pages). This was also published as Legacies of Maoist Economic Development in Sichuan by Oxford University Press ( New York ), 1993. Published in Chinese as Mao shidai jingji zaipingjia (A Reappraisal of Maoist Economic Development), Oxford University Press ( Hong Kong ), 1995.

(2004) 'Chinese Land Reform in Long Run Perspective and in the Wider Asian Context', Journal of Agrarian Change , 4 (1& 2), January and April, pp. 107-141.

(2003) 'Path Dependency and Growth in Rural China since 1978', Asian Business and Management , 2 (3), December, pps. 301-322.

(2001) 'The Quality of China's Household Income Surveys', China Quarterly , no. 167, September, pps. 689-705.

(2000) 'Inequality, Land Reform and Agricultural Growth in China, 1952-1955: A Preliminary Treatment', Journal of Peasant Studies , 27 (3), April, pps. 30-54.

(1997) 'Living Standards in Prewar Japan and Maoist China', Cambridge Journal of Economics , 21 (4), September, pps. 551-570 (published in Spanish in Cuadernos de Economia , Colombia, 1998).

(1995) 'Origins of the Agricultural 'Miracle': Some Evidence from Sichuan ', China Quarterly , no. 143, September, pps. 731-55.

(1993) 'Rural Income Inequality in China since 1978', Journal of Peasant Studies , 21 (1), October, pps. 41-70 (jointly with Marion E. Jones).