Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral Economy Violent Disputes over Property Rights in Eighteenth-Century China
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
- List of Qing Dynasty Emperors' Reign Dates
- List of Weights and Measures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Economic Change, Social Conflict, and Property Rights
- 2 “Population Increases Daily”: Economic Change during the Eighteenth Century
- 3 “As Before Each Manage Their Own Property”: Boundary and Water-rights Disputes
- 4 “Crafty and Obdurate Tenants”: Redemption, Rent Defaults, and Evictions
- 5 Temporal and Geographic Distributions of Property-rights Disputes in Guangdong
- 6 Violence North, West, and South: Property-rights Disputes in Shandong, Sichuan, and Guangdong
- 7 “You Will Be Rich but Not Benevolent”: Changing Concepts of Legitimacy and Violent Disputes
- 8 Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
List of Weights and Measures
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
- List of Qing Dynasty Emperors' Reign Dates
- List of Weights and Measures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Economic Change, Social Conflict, and Property Rights
- 2 “Population Increases Daily”: Economic Change during the Eighteenth Century
- 3 “As Before Each Manage Their Own Property”: Boundary and Water-rights Disputes
- 4 “Crafty and Obdurate Tenants”: Redemption, Rent Defaults, and Evictions
- 5 Temporal and Geographic Distributions of Property-rights Disputes in Guangdong
- 6 Violence North, West, and South: Property-rights Disputes in Shandong, Sichuan, and Guangdong
- 7 “You Will Be Rich but Not Benevolent”: Changing Concepts of Legitimacy and Violent Disputes
- 8 Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Manslaughter, Markets, and Moral EconomyViolent Disputes over Property Rights in Eighteenth-Century China, pp. xiii - xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2000