Book
State, peasant, and merchant in Qing Manchuria, 1644-1862
Stanford University Press • Stanford, Ca • Published In 2007 • Pages:
By: Isett, Christopher Mills.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a story of the failed attempt to maintain a distinct ethnic reservoir in the Manchu homeland region of northeast China. The Manchu regime could not keep Han Chinese out or control local society and economy closely enough to favor Manchu privilege. Attempts to control land sales and ownership resulted in a convoluted ownership system of multiple rights partly to hide Han usufruct. The author writes that the effort to maintain ethnic distinctiveness in the homeland region and strictly regulate interethnic relations and intercourse ultimately undermined Manchu farmer productivity and sustainability. Han Chinese control of trade also heavily influenced the course of economic development beyond government control.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Internal migration
- Real property
- Acquisition and relinquishment of property
- Renting and leasing
- Internal trade
- Ethnic stratification
- Serfdom and peonage
- Property offenses
- Property offenses
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Manchu
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2012
- 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
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Historian
- 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; 2012
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1588-1935
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- northeast China
- NotesAdditional notes
- Christopher Mills Isett
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-399) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2006011775
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Peasants--China--Manchuria--History
- Peasants--China--Manchuria--Social conditions
- Political leadership--China--Manchuria--History
- Social structure--China--Manchuria--History
- Manchuria (China)--Politics and government
- China--History--Qing dynasty, 1644-1912