State-sponsored inequality : the banner system and social stratification in northeast China
by
 
Chen, Shuang, 1977- author.

Title
State-sponsored inequality : the banner system and social stratification in northeast China
 
Studies in social inequality
 
Studies in social inequality.

Author
Chen, Shuang, 1977- author.

ISBN
9780804799034

Personal Author
Chen, Shuang, 1977- author.

Physical Description
xviii, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Series
Studies in social inequality
 
Studies in social inequality.

Contents
Social formation under state domination in modern China : an introduction -- Clearing boundaries : the founding of Shuangcheng society -- Building boundaries : land allocation and population registration -- Consolidating power : banner government and local control -- Community and hierarchy : banner villages -- Reinventing hierarchy : metropolitan bannermen family strategies -- Sustaining hierarchy : wealth stratification -- Social formation in the early Republic.

Abstract
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.

Subject Term
Social stratification -- China -- Manchuria -- History -- 19th century.
 
Landowners -- China -- Manchuria -- History -- 19th century.
 
Land grants -- China -- Manchuria -- History -- 19th century.
 
Wealth -- China -- Manchuria -- History -- 19th century.
 
Stratificazione sociale -- Manciuria -- Sec. 19.

Geographic Term
Manchuria (China) -- Social conditions -- 19th century.
 
China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.

Genre
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628

Bibliographical References
Includes bibliographical references and index.

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