List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 Transition, Economic Policy, and Institutional Reforms in China and Vietnam -- I REGIONAL AND SECTORAL IMPACT OF ECONOMIC REFORMS -- 2 Regional Inequality in China -- 3 Fiscal Decentralization, Non-farm Development, and Spatial Inequality in Rural China -- 4 The Contribution of Diversification to the Growth and Sustainability of Chinese Agriculture -- 5 Growth and Regional Inequality in Asia's "New Dragons" -- 6 Land Policy in Vietnam's Agrarian Transition -- 7 The Effects of Economic Policy Reforms on the Economic Environment of Farm Households in China -- PART II Farm Household Decision-Making under a Changing Economic and Institutional Environment -- 8 Farm Household Responses to China's New Rural Income Support Policy -- 9 Marketing Chains, Transaction Costs, and Resource Management -- 10 Off-farm Employment, Factor Market Development, and Input Use in Farm Production -- 11 Land Fragmentation and Smallholder Rice Farm's Production Costs in Jiangxi Province, China -- 12 Intensification of Rice Production and Negative Health Effects for Farmers in the Mekong Delta during Vietnam's Transition -- 13 Public Investment, Agricultural Research, and Agro-chemicals Use in Grain Production in China -- PART III Agriculture and Sustainable Land Management -- 14 Sustainability Issues in East Asian Rice Cultivation -- 15 Agricultural Technology and Nitrogen Pollution in Southeast China -- 16 China's Farmland Use -- Appendix -- About the Contributors.