Socioeconomic Change in Villages of Manchuria During the Ch'ing and Republican Periods: Some Preliminary Findings
- 1 July 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Modern Asian Studies
- Vol. 10 (4) , 591-620
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0026749x00014979
Abstract
A Great deal has been written about the Chinese state, but we still know very little about the common people, particularly peasants. How did they live? How did they found their communities? How did their socioeconomic status and property rights change over time. During the 1920s, 1930s and early 1940s, China's rural society and economy became the object of intense investigation by Chinese and foreign researchers. From this period dates our present, conventional wisdom of how rural communities were structured and had evolved since the nineteenth century.Keywords
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