Land and Peasants in Late Imperial China: An Economic Analysis

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2013

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Yang, He

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My dissertation identifies four major parties in a feudal society: the ruler, the ruler's bureaucratic agents (local governments), the lords, and the peasants. In the context of Feudal China, the dissertation focuses on the landlord-peasant relationship and the landlord-local government relationship, while treating the ruler-lord relationship as exogenous.

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Economics, Corvée, Double cropping, Landownership, Serfdom, Sharecropping, Tax shelter

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