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The Making of a New Rural Order in South China : I. Village, Land, and Lineage in Huizhou, 900-1600.

Landmark study of the long-term dynamics of Chinese village history proposing a new framework for understanding pre-modern economies in Asia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McDermott, Joseph P.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Tables; Acknowledgments; Map; Chart; Ming weights and measures; Introduction; 1 Village institutions in the Song and Yuan; Village worship associations; Popular cults: small and big; Popular cults: religious alliances; Buddhist institutions; Kinship institutions; 2 Large communal families and lineages: kinship and property in the Song and Yuan; Basic principles and problems; Practices and solutions; Fan Zhongyan's land trust; Huizhou cases: from large communal families to trust-based lineages.
  • The Wangs of Wukou and the failure of the communal model in HuizhouThe Jin family's adaptation of the lineage trust organization; Squaring the circle: money and ritual; 3 Village institutions in the early and mid Ming; Devastation and recovery in the early Ming; The growth of lineages; The village worship association in the early Ming; Changes within village worship associations; Huangs and Zhus, in Tandu; Membership and practices in village worship associations; Alliances: the external politics of village worship associations and shrines; The Wangs and the Chengs: takeovers and opponents.
  • QuestionsBuddhist establishments; Six centuries of piety and violence: from chapel lands to lineage trusts; The Zhangs of Zhaoyi ward, Wuyuan county; The Fangs of Liushan, She county; 4 Lineage trusts: success and adversity; Ming lineage trusts and The Family Agreements of Lord Doushan; Success and Cheng Doushan, 1379-1454: a founder's terms for land and labor; Success at home and away: third-branch dominance and Cheng Guan, 1454-1492; Examination success; Resident managers: the power of Cheng Guan; Economic performance: food constraints and timber growth; Harvest matters; Mountain timber.
  • Adversity, 1492-1545: problems of succession during an agrarian crisisHarvest difficulties; Grave troubles; Management failures and abuses: giving wings to tigers
  • 1520-1545: Cheng Gao and the 1520 pact; Conclusion; Appendix 4.1 The Family Agreements of Lord Doushan (Doushan gong jiayi); 5 Lineage trusts: reforms and their aftermath; Reforms; Problems and solutions; Paddy fields; Field servants; Mountain land managers; Punishments; Mountain land management; The aftermath of the reforms: 1545-1575; Pacts: 1570, 1575, and 1597; Filial impiety: a father and his sons.
  • ""Old habits"" and pactsAn explanation: bondservants and managers; The ""Culture Group"" and ""gentry control""; The Culture Group: lineage organization, land, and labor; Conclusion; 6 Timber futures; Production; The risks; Agronomic solutions: tree farming; Institutional solutions: conditions of ownership; Landowners' management practices and risk reduction; Economic practices and risk reduction for ownership; Institutional solutions: tenancy arrangements; Economic practices and risk reduction for tenancies; Tenants ́ administrative practices and risk reduction; Distribution.