Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China.

Maps, diagrams, Part I : 40pp; Part II: 33pp; Part III: 36pp, original wrappers faded and worn along edges, corners little bumped, prior owner's name title page, internally clean, a sound copy. First two parts provide a summary description and preliminary analysis of marketing systems in late traditional and 'transitional' rural China. Part III explores the ways in which commodity distribution on the Communist mainland is related to prior patterns of peasant marketing, and the extent to which rural collectivisation has been geared to the natural systems of earlier times, standard marketing communities in particular. (From Publisher's description).