Village governance in North China, 1875-1936 /:

This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the villag...

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1. Verfasser: Li, Huaiyin
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.
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Zusammenfassung:This book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the village level. Its analysis of peasant behaviors bridges the gap between the rational choice and moral economy models by taking into account both material and symbolic dimensions of power and interest in the peasant community. The author's interpretation of village/state relations before 1900 transcends the state and society dichotomy and accentuates the interplay between formal and informal institutions and practices. His account of "state making" after 1900 underscores the continuity of endogenous arrangements in the course of institutional formalization and the interpenetration between official discourse and popular notions in the new process of political legitimization.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 325 pages) : maps
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-311) and index.
ISBN:1423716671
9781423716679
9780804750912
0804750912

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