Institutional and Secondary Landlordism in the Pearl River Delta, 1600-1949

Eng, Robert Y.

doi:10.1177/009770048601200101

Modern China

1986

DOI: 10.1177/009770048601200101

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Institutional and Secondary Landlordism in the Pearl River Delta, 1600-1949

Robert Y. Eng

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“…Studies of the Canton delta also document the key role of reclamation in the settlement history of that region and have linked the predominant landowning role of corporate estates to their investment in reclamation(Ch'en Han-sheng 1936:34; Watson 1975:31-38;Eng 1986). C. K. Yang provides an example showing that reclamation did not occur only in response to prosperity.…”

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Rethinking Tenancy: Explaining Spatial and Temporal Variation in Late Imperial and Republican China

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1988

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Studies of the role of land tenure in the economic and social history of China are flawed by the unexamined assumption that the sale of land by impoverished farmers was the only process that generated high rates of tenancy and concentration of ownership of land. Debt-sales are assumed to occur as part of a cycle of immiserization in which a peasant population outgrows its landed resources and owner-farmers are forced to sell their lands and become the tenants or hired laborers of wealthy landlords. This essay demonstrates the improbability of such a scenario and establishes its opposite: that rates of tenancy and concentration of landownership rise, not in periods of economic decline but in periods of prosperity, and not through debt-sales but through the alternate processes of reclamation, migration, and changes in the mode of landlord farm management.

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Rethinking Tenancy: Explaining Spatial and Temporal Variation in Late Imperial and Republican China

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1988

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Peasant Studies in the Journal Modern China, 1979–1991

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From 1979 to 1991, Modern China, a landmark journal of Chinese studies, published a large number of articles in the field of peasant studies. These articles are of two types: studies of peasants in premodern China, which focus on the rural economy, politics, and ideology; and studies on the history of “peasant studies” itself, which focus on the problems, paradigms and directions of the field. Taken together, all these articles reveal the influence of three major approaches to history: the longue durée perspective of the French Annales school, the “bottom-up” approach to lived experience of the British new social history movement, and the time, space, and demography frame of reference of G. William Skinner.

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Institutional and Secondary Landlordism in the Pearl River Delta, 1600-1949

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Rethinking Tenancy: Explaining Spatial and Temporal Variation in Late Imperial and Republican China

Rethinking Tenancy: Explaining Spatial and Temporal Variation in Late Imperial and Republican China

Peasant Studies in the Journal Modern China, 1979–1991

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