Chinese CSA olvcan inve interesting and surprising arrangements of land and capital. China does not have a system of private land ownership; ownership resides with the local administrative unit, such as the village, and ultimately with the state. The bundle of rights associated with a piece of land is disaggregated, allowing various use rights to be recombined and redistributed even as real property control remains legally “off the market.” As China’s collective system began to be dismantled in the late 1970s and early 1980s, rural land was redistributed at a local level for use by individual farming families. In the intervening years, these distributions have been revisited and adjusted in some villages, but not others. Further, local and regional government “development” projects have led to serious dislocation as land use rights are arrogated to property development enterprises through formal and informal arrangements with officials. Obtaining control of use-rights for a small-scale farming project can be a major challenge, especially for beginning farmers.