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020			_a9781107070455 (ebook)
020			_z9781107046221 (hardback)
020			_z9781107675643 (paperback)
040			_aUkCbUP _beng _erda _cUkCbUP
050	0	0	_aHN740.Z9 _bC6522 2013
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100	1		_aMcDermott, Joseph P., _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe Making of a New Rural Order in South China : _bI. Village, Land, and Lineage in Huizhou, 900–1600. _nVolume 1 / _cJoseph P. McDermott.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (484 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016).
520			_aAmong the large caches of private documents discovered and collected in China, few rival the Huizhou sources for the insight they provide into Chinese local society and economy over the past millennium. Having spent decades researching these exceptionally rich sources, Joseph P. McDermott presents in two volumes his findings about the major social and economic changes in this important prefecture of south China from around 900 to 1700. In this first volume, we learn about village settlement, competition among village religious institutions, premodern agricultural production, the management of land and lineage, the rise of the lineage as the dominant institution, and its members' application of commercial practices to local forestry operations. This landmark study of religious life and economic activity, of lineage and land, and of rural residents and urban commercial practices provides a compelling new framework for understanding a distinctive path of economic and social development for premodern China and beyond.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107046221
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107070455
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c37471 _d37471