1875-1936
Hardback
Publication Date: 09/03/2005
This book is about village governance in China during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Ilebei province, this book explores the operational realities of local practices as well as institutionally imposed social control, land taxation, and "self government" at the village level. Its analysis of peasant behaviors bridges the gap between the rational choice and moral economy models by taking into account both material and symbolic dimensions of power and interest in the peasant community. The author's interpretation of village/state relations before 1900 transcends the state and society dichotomy and accentuates the interplay between formal and informal institutions and practices. His account of "state making" after 1900 underscores the continuity of endogenous arrangements in the course of institutional formalization and the interpenetration between official discourse and popular notions in the new process of political legitimization.
- ISBN:
- 9780804750912
- 9780804750912
- Category:
- Regional government
- Format:
- Hardback
- Publication Date:
- 09-03-2005
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 344
- Dimensions (mm):
- 229x152x25mm
- Weight:
- 0.59kg
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