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Guo shi sha ren, shi chang yu dao de jing ji : 18 shi ji Zhongguo cai chan quan de bao li jiu fen = Manslaughter, markets, and moral economy : violent disputes over property rights in eighteenth-century China
Buoye, Thomas M.Di 1 ban. 第1版. - Beijing Shi : She hui ke xue wen xian chu ban she, 2008. 北京市 : 社会科学文献出版社 2008. -
Manslaughter, markets, and moral economy : violent disputes over property rights in eighteenth century China
Buoye, Thomas M.Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.In this book, Thomas Buoye examines the impact of large-scale economic change on social conflict in eighteenth-century China. He draws upon a large body of actual, documented homicide cases originating in property disputes to recreate the social tensions of rural China during the Qianlong reign (1736-95). The development of property rights, a process that had begun in the Ming dynasty, was accompanied by other changes that fostered disruption and conflict, including an explosion in the population growth and the increasing strain on land and resources, and increasing commercialization in agriculture. Buoye challenges the 'markets' and 'moral economy' theories of economic behaviour. Applying the theories of Douglass North for the first time to this subject, he uses an institutional framework to explain seemingly irrational economic choices. Buoye examines demographic and technological factors, ideology, and political and economic institutions in rural China to understand the link between economic and social change.
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