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020 _a9781107070455 (ebook)
020 _z9781107046221 (hardback)
020 _z9781107675643 (paperback)
040 _aUkCbUP
_cUkCbUP
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050 0 0 _aHN740.Z9
_bC6522 2013
082 0 0 _a307.1/4120951
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100 1 _aMcDermott, Joseph P.,
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe Making of a New Rural Order in South China :
_bI. Village, Land, and Lineage in Huizhou, 900–1600
_nVolume 1 / [electronic resource]
_cJoseph P. McDermott.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2013.
300 _a1 online resource (480 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).
520 _aAmong 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.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781107046221
856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107070455
_zCambridge Books Online
999 _c236804
_d236804