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Landownership concentration in China: the Buck Survey revisited
Modern China • 12 (3) • Published In 1986 • Pages: 259-360
By: Arrigo, Linda Gail.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study recalculated some of John L. Buck's famous land survey data from the 1930s to determine factors that might have contributed to social inequality. Specifically, it examines land ownership, rents, productivity, and management, along with climate and transportation (to markets). The study also calculates a general subsistence quota above which a farming household produces a surplus. The findings suggest that land productivity, especially double cropping, and population density are most likely predictors of surplus production which in turn predicts landownership concentration and social inequality.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Population
- Tillage
- Initiation of judicial proceedings
- Real property
- Renting and leasing
- Production and supply
- Labor supply and employment
- Classes
- Household
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Han Chinese
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- not applicable
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1929-1933
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- People's Republic of China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Linda Gail Arrigo
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-360)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75642238
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- China--Social life and customs