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State-Sponsored Inequality : The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China /

This book explores the social economic processes of inequality in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century rural China. Drawing on uniquely rich source materials, Shuang Chen provides a comprehensive view of the creation of a social hierarchy wherein the state classified immigrants to the Chinese cou...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chen, Shuang (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Conventions
  • Chapter One. Social Formation Under State Domination in Modern China: An Introduction
  • Chapter Two. Clearing Boundaries: The Founding of Shuangcheng Society
  • Chapter Three. Building Boundaries: Land Allocation and Population Registration
  • Chapter Four. Consolidating Power: Banner Government and Local Control
  • Chapter Five. Community and Hierarchy: Banner Villages
  • Chapter Six. Reinventing Hierarchy: Metropolitan Bannermen Family Strategies
  • Chapter Seven. Sustaining Hierarchy: Wealth Stratification
  • Chapter Eight. Social Formation in the Early Republic
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix A: Names and Terms of Office of the Generals of Jilin
  • Appendix B: An Estimation of the Number of Unregistered Households in Shuangcheng in 1876
  • Notes
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index