• Deepen readers’ understanding of the nature of contemporary Chinese economic development 
  
• Relaxes the hypothesis of the perfect market condition to discuss institutional and technological changes in Chinese post-reform agriculture under the complex market institution
  
• Highlights the decisive role of market institutions in determining the selection and transition of agricultural technologies
  

Jun Du is a visiting research fellow of the East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore. She holds a PhD from University of London, UK, specialising in institutional and agricultural economics with an application to China and other East Asian countries. Her research interests include induced innovation in agriculture and Chinese agricultural economic history.