Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy
Subtitle: Violent Disputes over Property Rights in Eighteenth-Century China (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 31, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521640459
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900; Land rights; c 1700 to c 1800; History; China - History; Violence (Sociological Aspects); World - General; Family / Parenting / Childbirth; Violence; History: World; China; General; Violence in Society; History / Asia; Violence--China--History--18th century; Asia - China; 18th century; Right of property; Social conflict
First sentence: Since the normalization of diplomatic relations between China and the United States in the 1980s, American scholars have gradually gained access to a wide range of primary source materials that have enriched the quality and extended the scope of historical research on China.
Description: "China's remarkable economic expansion in the eighteenth century - propelled by large-scale changes in agriculture, demographics, land use, and property rights - had far-reaching social consequences. One important result of the growing population and deepening commercialization of the rural economy was a relative scarcity of land. Just as this problem increased, the new complexity of property rights in land outgrew the customary law, challenging long-held traditions and the shared ideology that governed economic exchange and land ownership in rural China." "In this book, Thomas Buoye reconstructs and analyzes the everyday struggles of the common people to cope with changing concepts and laws regarding property rights in this shifting social landscape."--Jacket.