Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century

by Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski

• ISBN13: 9780300046021
• ISBN10: 0300046022
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 1989-09-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

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	(9)
Upper Yangtze	193	(6)
Southeast China	199	(6)
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