The Peasant Family And Rural Development In The Yangzi Delta 1350 1988
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The Peasant Family And Rural Development In The Yangzi Delta 1350 1988
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Author : Philip C. Huang
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 1990
The Peasant Family And Rural Development In The Yangzi Delta 1350 1988 written by Philip C. Huang and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Political Science categories.
How can we account for the durability of subsistence farming in China despite six centuries of vigorous commercialization from 1350 to 1950 and three decades of collectivization between 1950 to 1980? Why did the Chinese rural economy not undergo the transformation predicted by the classical models of Adam Smith and Karl Marx? In attempting to answer this question, scholars have generally treated commercialization and collectivization as distinct from population increase, the other great rural change of the past six centuries. This book breaks new ground in arguing that in the Yangzi delta, China's most advanced agricultural region, population increase was what drove commercialization and collectivization, even as it was made possible by them. The processes at work, which the author terms involutionary commercialization and involutionary growth, entailed ever-increasing labor input per unit of land, resulting in expanded total output but diminishing marginal returns per workday. In the Ming-Qing period, involution usually meant a switch to more labor-intensive cash crops and low-return household sidelines. In post-revolutionary China, it typically meant greatly intensified crop production. Stagnant or declining returns per workday were absorbed first by the family production unit and then by the collective. The true significance of the 1980's reforms, the author argues, lies in the diversion of labour from farming to rural industries and profitable sidelines and the first increases for centuries in productivity and income per workday. With these changes have come a measure of rural prosperity and the genuine possibility of transformative rural development. By reconstructing Ming-Qing agricultural history and drawing on twentieth-century ethnographic data and his own field investigations, the author brings his large themes down to the level of individual peasant households. Like his acclaimed The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China (1985), this study is noteworthy for both its empirical richness and its theoretical sweep, but it goes well beyond the earlier work in its inter-regional comparisons and its use of the pre- and post-1949 periods to illuminate each other.
Re Evaluating Philip C C Huang S The Peasant Family And Rural Development In The Yangzi Delta 1350 1988
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Author : Vincent H. Shie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Re Evaluating Philip C C Huang S The Peasant Family And Rural Development In The Yangzi Delta 1350 1988 written by Vincent H. Shie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Asia categories.
The Works Of Charles Darwin Volume 2
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Author : Charles Darwin
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1987-11-01
The Works Of Charles Darwin Volume 2 written by Charles Darwin and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987-11-01 with Literary Collections categories.
Charles Robert Darwin (1809–1882) has been widely recognized since his own time as one of the most influential writers in the history of Western thought. His books were widely read by specialists and the general public, and his influence had been extended by almost continuous public debate over the past 150 years. New York University Press's new paperback edition makes it possible to review Darwin's public literary output as a whole, plus his scientific journal articles, his private notebooks, and his correspondence. This is complete edition contains all of Darwin's published books, featuring definitive texts recording original pagination with Darwin's indexes retained. The set also features a general introduction and index, and introductions to each volume.
Re Evaluating Phillp C C Huang S The Peasant Family And Rural Development In The Yangzi Delta 1350 1988
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Author : Vincent H. Shie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Re Evaluating Phillp C C Huang S The Peasant Family And Rural Development In The Yangzi Delta 1350 1988 written by Vincent H. Shie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with categories.
Framing The Local And The Global
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Author : Vincent H. Shie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Framing The Local And The Global written by Vincent H. Shie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Asia categories.
Peasants And Revolution In Rural China
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Author : Chang Liu
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2007-05-14
Peasants And Revolution In Rural China written by Chang Liu and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-05-14 with History categories.
This book explores rural political change in China from 1850 to 1949 to help us understand China’s transformation from a weak, decaying agrarian empire to a unified, strong nation-state during this period. Based on local gazetteers, contemporary field studies, government archives, personal memoirs and other primary sources, it systematically compares two key macro-regions of rural China – the North China plain and the Yangzi delta – to demonstrate the ways in which the forces of political change, shaped by different local conditions, operated to transform the country. It shows that on the North China plain, the village community composed mainly of owner-cultivators was the focal point for political mobilization, whilst in the Yangzi delta absentee landlordism was exploited by the state for local control and tax extraction. However, these both set the stage, in different ways, for the communist mobilization in the first half of the twentieth century. Peasants and Revolution in Rural China is an important addition to the literature on the history of the Chinese Revolution, and will be of interest to anyone seeking to understand the course of Chinese social and political development.
A History Of Natural Resources In Asia
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Author : G. Bankoff
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2007-08-20
A History Of Natural Resources In Asia written by G. Bankoff and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-08-20 with Political Science categories.
Much has been written about the wealth of nations, the history of unequal distribution and zones of affluence and deprivation within and between societies. This book explores why some Asian nations are more prosperous than others through an examination of how their interaction with and utilization of resources has changed over the centuries.
Economic Change In China C 1800 1950
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Author : Philip Richardson
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1999-11-13
Economic Change In China C 1800 1950 written by Philip Richardson and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-11-13 with Business & Economics categories.
This concise 1999 introduction focuses on China's transition to economic modernisation.
China In Transformation
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Author : Weiming Tu
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 1994
China In Transformation written by Weiming Tu and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with History categories.
10 of the 11 articles first published in Vol 22 no. 2, 1993 issue of Daedalus.
The Birth Of Chinese Feminism
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Author : Lydia H. Liu
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2013-03-26
The Birth Of Chinese Feminism written by Lydia H. Liu and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-26 with Social Science categories.
He-Yin Zhen (ca. 1884-1920?) was a theorist who figured centrally in the birth of Chinese feminism. Unlike her contemporaries, she was concerned less with China's fate as a nation and more with the relationship among patriarchy, imperialism, capitalism, and gender subjugation as global historical problems. This volume, the first translation and study of He-Yin's work in English, critically reconstructs early twentieth-century Chinese feminist thought in a transnational context by juxtaposing He-Yin Zhen's writing against works by two better-known male interlocutors of her time. The editors begin with a detailed analysis of He-Yin Zhen's life and thought. They then present annotated translations of six of her major essays, as well as two foundational tracts by her male contemporaries, Jin Tianhe (1874-1947) and Liang Qichao (1873–1929), to which He-Yin's work responds and with which it engages. Jin, a poet and educator, and Liang, a philosopher and journalist, understood feminism as a paternalistic cause that liberals like themselves should defend. He-Yin presents an alternative conception that draws upon anarchism and other radical trends. Ahead of her time, He-Yin Zhen complicates conventional accounts of feminism and China's history, offering original perspectives on sex, gender, labor, and power that remain relevant today.