A landmark study of the long-term dynamics of Chinese village history proposing a new framework for understanding pre-modern economies in Asia. Num Pages: 480 pages, 15 tables. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3H; HBJF; HBLC; KCZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 158 x 33. Weight in Grams: 826. . 2013. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . .

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Title: The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: Volume 1, Village, Land, and Lineage in Huizhou, 900-1600
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2013
Language: English
ISBN 10: 110704622X
ISBN 13: 9781107046221
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Among the large caches of private documents discovered and collected in China, few rival the Huizhou sources for the insight they provide into Chinese local society and economy over the past millennium. Having spent decades researching these exceptionally rich sources, Joseph P. McDermott presents in two volumes his findings about the major social and economic changes in this important prefecture of south China from around 900 to 1700. In this first volume, we learn about village settlement, competition among village religious institutions, premodern agricultural production, the management of land and lineage, the rise of the lineage as the dominant institution, and its members' application of commercial practices to local forestry operations. This landmark study of religious life and economic activity, of lineage and land, and of rural residents and urban commercial practices provides a compelling new framework for understanding a distinctive path of economic and social development for premodern China and beyond.

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Joseph P. McDermott is Reader in Chinese History at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of St John's College. He has published widely on the pre-modern social and economic history of China.

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