State-sponsored inequality : the banner system and social stratification in northeast China / Shuang Chen.
This book explores the social economic processes of inequality in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century rural China. Drawing on uniquely rich source materials, Shuang Chen provides a comprehensive view of the creation of a social hierarchy wherein the state classified immigrants to the Chinese cou...
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Stanford, California :
Stanford University Press,
[2017]
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| Series: | Studies in social inequality.
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Table of Contents:
- Social formation under state domination in modern China : an introduction
- Clearing boundaries : the founding of Shuangcheng society
- Building boundaries : land allocation and population registration
- Consolidating power : banner government and local control
- Community and hierarchy : banner villages
- Reinventing hierarchy : metropolitan bannermen family strategies
- Sustaining hierarchy : wealth stratification
- Social formation in the early Republic.