The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China

by Philip C.C. Huang

Book Overview

The author presents a convincing new interpretation of the origins and nature of the agrarian crisis that gripped the North China Plain in the two centuries before the Revolution. His extensive research included eighteenth-century homicide case records, a nineteenth-century country government archive, large quantities of 1930's Japanese ethnographic materials, and his own field studies in 1980.

Through a comparison of the histories of small...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804714673
• ISBN13: 9780804714679
• Release Date: March 1988
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 9.0"