Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance: The Lower Yangzi Region, 1840-1950

by Kathryn Bernhardt

Throughout China's long imperial history, the political-economic system was supported mainly by the rents and taxes collected from the peasantry. The survival of the system depended on orderly relations between landlords and tenants and between the state and landowners. In the century before the Communist triumph in 1949, both sets of relations were profoundly changed. How did this transformation come about? With the commercially advanced lower Yangzi...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804718806
• ISBN13: 9780804718806
• Release Date: February 1992
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"