{"product_id":"state-peasant-and-merchant-in-qing-manchuria-16441862-9780804752718","title":"State Peasant and Merchant in Qing Manchuria","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis study seeks to lay bare the relationship between the sociopolitical structures that shaped peasant lives in Manchuria (northeast China) during the Qing dynasty and the development of that region's economy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Isett's description and analysis of developments in Manchuria are detialed, clear, and convincing.\" -- \u003ci\u003eEH-Net\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This exemplary monograph... is, first and foremost, a well-crafted, solidly documented analysis of the marked changes in the political economy and social structure of Manchuria during the early to mid-Qing era.\" -- \u003ci\u003eCHOICE\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface\txiii  \t\tMeasurements and Conventions\txv  \t\tMaps\txvii  \t\tIntroduction\t1  Part One: Asserting Hegemony over the Homeland: Dynastic Objectives and the Creation of an   Agrarian Order, 1644-1700\t15  \t1\tManchuria's Place in the Early Imperial Project\t15  \t2\tThe Agrarian Order in Late Seventeenth-Century Manchuria\t38  \t3\tThe State in the Village\t54  Part Two: Peasant and State in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries  \t4\tThe State and Agrarian Property Relations\t111  \t5\tThe Social Basis of the Transformation of Agrarian Manchuria\t111  \t6\tWage Labor and Wage Relations in Qing Manchuria\t130  Part Three: State, Trade, and Peasant Agriculture: Developments in the Manchurian Economy  \t7\tHousehold Formation, Property Division, and Agricultural Change in the Peasant   Economy\t156  \t8\tThe Content and Growth of the Manchurian Trade, 1700-1860\t182  \t9\tState, Merchant, and the Organization of the Manchurian Trade\t182  \t\tConclusion: Critiques and Alternative\t217  \t\tAppendix A: Population and Cultivated Area in Qing Manchuria\t237  \t\tAppendix B: Grain Yields in the Qing and Republican Eras\t237  \t\tNotes\t237  \t\tReferences and Sources\t271  \t\tChinese Glossary\t297  \t\tIndex\t305","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405563666775,"sku":"9780804752718","price":66.6,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804752718.jpg?v=1730492848","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/state-peasant-and-merchant-in-qing-manchuria-16441862-9780804752718","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}