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Isett, Christopher Mills

State, peasant, and merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862 Christopher Mills Isett - Stanford, Calif Stanford University Press 2007 - xiv, 418 p. maps 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-399) and index.

Asserting hegemony over the homeland : dynastic objectives and the creation of an agrarian order, 1644-1700 -- Manchuria's place in the early imperial project -- The agrarian order in late seventeenth-century Manchuria -- The state in the village -- Peasant and state in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries -- The state and agrarian property relations -- The social basis of the transformation of agrarian Manchuria -- Wage labor and wage relations in Qing Manchuria -- State, trade, and peasant agriculture: developments in the Manchurian economy -- Household formation, property division, and agricultural change in the peasant economy -- The content and growth of the Manchurian trade, 1700-1860 -- State, merchant, and the organization of the Manchurian trade -- Conclusion: critiques and alternative -- Appendix A: population and cultivated area in Qing Manchuria -- Appendix B: grain yields in the Qing and Republican eras -- Notes -- References and sources -- Chinese glossary.

ISBN: 9780804752718

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Manchuria -- Society -- Social Conditions -- Peasantry--History--China--Manchuria
Manchuria -- Polictics -- Goverment -- Political leadership