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

Chen, Shuang

 
9780804799034: State-Sponsored Inequality: The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0804799032 ISBN 13 : 9780804799034
Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

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 hierarchy were then simultaneously challenged and reinforced by local people.

The tensions built into the unequal land entitlements shaped the identities of immigrant groups, and this social hierarchy persisted even after the institution of unequal state entitlements was removed. State-Sponsored Inequality offers an in-depth understanding of the key factors that contribute to social stratification in agrarian societies. Moreover, it sheds light on the many parallels between the stratification system in nineteenth-century Shuangcheng and structural inequality in contemporary China.

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À propos de l?auteur

Shuang Chen is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Iowa.

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Éditeur
Stanford University Press
Date d'édition
2017
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0804799032
ISBN 13 
9780804799034
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
368
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