The peasant economy and social change in North China / Philip C.C. Huang
1985, 1st edition. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #425859
ISBN: 0804712204
Physical description; xi, 369 pages : maps. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; The Issues -- The Sources and the Villages -- The Ecological Setting -- Economic Involution and Social Change -- Managerial Farming and Family Farming in the 1930's -- The Small-Peasant and Estate Economies of the Early Qing -- Commercialization and Social Stratification in the Qing -- Accelerated Commercialization in the Twentieth Century -- Managerial Farming and Family Farming: Draft-Animal Use -- Managerial Farming and Family Farming: Labor Use -- The Underdevelopment of Managerial Farming -- The Persistence of Small-Peasant Family Farming -- The Commercialization of Production Relations -- The Village and the State -- Villages Under the Qing State -- Changes in the Village Community -- Village and State in the Twentieth Century -- Socioeconomic Profiles of the 33 Mantetsu-Surveyed Villages -- The Population of Hebei and Shandong, 1393-1953 -- Cultivated Acreage in Hebei and Shandong, 1393-1957. Subjects; Peasants History Economic aspects China. Agriculture China History. Agriculture. Peasants Economic conditions. Rural conditions.
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