• Preface



• Introduction



• 1: The credibility of agricultural land tenure or why delibrate institutional ambiguity might work



• 2: Why the village has no power: land ownership disputes and customary tenure



• 3: Governing China's grasslands: the clash over state and collective property



• 4: Contested spaces: forest rights, registration and social conflict



• 5: Going, going, gone! A case-study of the wasteland auction policy



• 6: Between nationalization and privatization: common property as the third way?



• Summary and concluding observations: the national debate on property law