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Title

Rural China : imperial control in the nineteenth century / by Kung-Chuan Hsiao.

Author

Xiao, Gongquan, 1897-1981

Publication

Seattle : University of Washington Press, 1960.

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Additional Authors

Wilhelm Collection (East Asian Library and the Gest Collection) NjP

Description

xiv, 783 pages : map; 24 cm.

Series Statement

University of Washington publications on Asia

Uniform Title

University of Washington publications on Asia.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Politics and government
• Rural conditions
• China > Politics and government > 19th century
• China > Rural conditions
• China
• Chine > Politique et gouvernement > 19e siècle
• Chine > Conditions rurales > 19e siècle

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 743-776.

Contents

pt. 1. The divisions of rural areas. Villages, markets, and towns ; Administrative divisions: Pao-chia and Li-chia. -- pt. 2. Rural control. Police control: the Pao-chia system ; Tax collection in rural areas: the Li-chia system ; Famine control: She-ts'ang and other granaries ; Ideological control: the Hsiang-yüeh and other institutions. -- pt. 3. The effects of control. The effects of control on the village ; The clan and rural control ; Rural reactions to control: I ; Rural reactions to control: II ; Summary and postscript. -- Appendix I: Variations in the Lia-chia structure. -- Appendix II: Historical antecedents of the Ch'ing granary system. -- Appendix III: "Village elders" -- Table of transliteration. -- Reigns and emperors of the Ch'ing dynasty.

ISBN

• 0295739193
• 9780295739199

LCCN

60015803

OCLC

• ocm00178666
• 178666
• SCSB-115523

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library