State Sponsored Inequality The Banner System and Social Stratification in Northeast China 1st Edition by Shuang Chen 9780804799034 0804799032
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ISBN 10: 0804799032
ISBN 13: 9780804799034
Author: Shuang Chen
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.
Table of contents:
One. Social Formation Under State Domination in Modern China: An Introduction
Part I: State-Building
Two. Clearing Boundaries: The Founding of Shuangcheng Society
Three. Building Boundaries: Land Allocation and Population Registration
Four. Consolidating Power: Banner Government and Local Control
Part II: Social Development and Stratification
Five. Community and Hierarchy: Banner Villages
Six. Reinventing Hierarchy: Metropolitan Bannermen Family Strategies
Seven. Sustaining Hierarchy: Wealth Stratification
Eight. Social Formation in the Early Republic
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