State, Peasant, and Merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862 By Christopher Mills Isett ISBN: 9780804752718 Published: 2006 Number of Pages: 464 Edition: 1st Binding: Hardcover

Pricing & Availability: Additional Details: Product Type: Book Publisher: Stanford University Press Description: This 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. The book is written in three parts. It begins with an analysis of the ideological, political, and economic interests of the Qing ruling house in defending its homeland in the northeast against occupation by non-Manchus, and examines how these interests informed state policy and the reconfiguration of the region’s social landscape in the first decades of the dynasty. The book then addresses how this agrarian configuration unraveled under challenge from settler peasant communities and gives an account of the resulting property and labor regimes. The study ends with an account of how that social formation configured peasant economic behavior and in so doing established the limits of economic change and trade growth.

Library of Congress Control Number
   - LC control Number:  2006011775
   - LC control Number: 2006011775

National Bibliography Number
   - Source: bnb: GBA644577

National Bibliographic Agency Control Number
   - Source: Uk
   - Record control number: 013459421

International Standard Book Number: 0804752710: 0804752710 (cloth : alk. paper): 9780804752718 (cloth : alk. paper)

Level of Bibliographic Control and Coding Detail: COUTTS

Geographic Area Code: a-cc---

Library of Congress Call Number
   - Classification number: HD
   - Classification number: HD1537.C5
   - Item number: I72 2007

Dewey Decimal Classification Number
   - Edition number: 22
   - Classification number: 330.951/803

Main Entry - Personal Name
   - Personal name: Isett, Christopher Mills.

Title Statement
   - Title: State, peasant, and merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862 /
   - Statement of responsibility, etc.: Christopher Mills Isett.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint)
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Stanford, CA:
   - Place of publication, distribution, etc.: Stanford, Calif. :
   - Name of publisher, distribution, etc.: Stanford University Press,
   - Date of publication, distribution, etc.: 2007.

Physical Description
   - Extent: xiv, 418 p.
   - Extent: xiv, 418 p. :
   - Other physical details: maps ;
   - Dimensions: 24 cm.

Bibliography, etc. Note
   - Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-399) and index.

Formatted Contents Note: 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.

Subject Added Entry - Topical Term
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Peasantry
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Political leadership
   - Topical term or geographic name entry element: Social structure
   - General subdivision: History.
   - General subdivision: Social conditions.
   - Geographic subdivision: China
   - Geographic subdivision: Manchuria

Subject Added Entry - Geographic Name
   - Geographic name: China
   - Geographic name: Manchuria (China)
   - General subdivision: History
   - General subdivision: Politics and government.
   - Chronological subdivision: Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.