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Village governance in North China, 1875-1936 / Huaiyin Li.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Li, Huaiyin.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land use--Taxation--China--Huolu Xian.
- Land use.
- Huolu Xian (China)--Politics and government.
- Huolu Xian (China).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 325 pages : maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2005.
- Summary:
- A study of village governance in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China that reinterprets peasant behavior, village community, and state-society relations.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- The setting
- Cooperation and control in the peasant community
- Rules, self interest, and strategies
- Tax collection
- Land and tax administration
- Power, discourse, and legitimacy
- Cooperation and conflict over village schools
- Elite activism
- Village reorganization
- Uncovering "black land".
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-311) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0804750912
- OCLC:
- 55744401
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