State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China

by Shuang Chen

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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 county of Shuangcheng into distinct categories, each associated with different land entitlements. The resulting patterns of wealth stratification and social...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0804799032

ISBN13:9780804799034

Release Date:April 2017

Publisher:Stanford University Press

Length:368 Pages

Weight:1.56 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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History Social Science Social Sciences

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