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9780300038484

Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300038484

  • ISBN10:

    0300038488

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1987-09-01
  • Publisher: Yale Univ Pr

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Table of Contents

List of Plates, Tables, and Maps
vii(2)
Preface ix(4)
Note on Chinese Terms xiii(5)
Qing Reign Periods xviii
Part One: Qing Society 1(94)
1. Government Policies
3(30)
Political Structures
4(10)
Social Policies
14(7)
Economic Rehabilitation
21(6)
Foreign Relations
27(6)
2. Social Relations
33(22)
Kinship
33(6)
Residence and Community
39(7)
Economic Organizations
46(4)
Patronage
50(5)
3. Cultural Life
55(40)
City Life
55(9)
Literati Culture
64(8)
Material Culture
72(7)
Life-Cycle Rituals
79(4)
Annual Festivals
83(5)
State Ritual
88(2)
Values and Beliefs
90(5)
Part Two: Change and Diversity in Eighteenth-Century Society 95(142)
4. Social Change
97(41)
Economic Diversity and Growth
97(9)
Demographic Trends
106(8)
Hereditary Statuses
114(9)
Social Mobility
123(4)
Assimilation of Minorities
127(3)
Frontier Society
130(3)
New Associations
133(5)
5. Regional Societies
138(79)
North China
140(7)
Lower Yangtze
147(11)
Middle Yangtze
158(9)
Southeast Coast
167(9)
Lingnan
176(8)
Northwest China
184(11)
Upper Yangtze
195(5)
Southwest China
200(5)
Manchuria
205(3)
Taiwan
208(4)
Region and Nation
212(5)
6. The Eighteenth-Century Legacy
217(20)
Dynastic Decline?
218(3)
Growth and Complexity
221(11)
The Opium War
232(5)
Notes 237(6)
Selected Reading 243(22)
Index 265

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