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Insinuation, Insult, and Invective: The Threshold of Power and Protest in Modern China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 August 2002

Patricia M. Thornton
Affiliation:
Political Science, Trinity College

Extract

Decades after the Chinese Communists successfully ousted their Nationalist Party rivals and radically remolded the political economy of the countryside, an elderly resident of Guangdong's Zhongshan municipality recounted the onerous burden of taxes imposed under Nationalist rule. In addition to the twenty-six types of taxes exacted from residents by central state authorities, and the twenty excises collected by the provincial administration, he recalled that the local tax office levied fourteen taxes, including a commodity tax imposed on human excrement.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
© 2002 Society for Comparative Study of Society and History

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