自1978年改革开放以来,在20多年间引发了13亿人口大国的经济、政治、社会和文化迅猛变化,中国的改革首先从农村开始并获得了巨大的成功,这日益引起国外政府部门和学术界的广泛关注。特别是20世纪90年代以来,越来越多的国外机构和学者对中国农村问题展开研究,研究领域日益扩展,研究方法日益多样化,学术成果大为丰富,中国农村研究已经成为海外中国研究中的热点和“显学”。 Since the reform and opening up in 1978, the economy, politics, society and culture of 1.3 billion population have rapidly changed over the past 20 years. China’s reform started with great success in the rural areas and this has drawn increasingly more attention from foreign government departments and academic institutions Community wide concern. In particular, since the 1990s, more and more foreign institutions and scholars have conducted research on rural areas in China, expanding their fields of study, diversifying their research methods and enriching their academic achievements. Rural studies in China have become the focus of overseas Chinese studies Hot spots and “learn school ”.