The Peasant Economy and Social Change in North China

Note of place-names; Part I. Background: 1. The issues; 2. The sources and the villages; 3. The ecological setting; Part II. Economic Involution and Social Change: 4. Managerial farming and family farming in the 1930's; 5. The small-peasant and estate economies of the early Qing; 6. Commercialization and social stratification in the Qing; 7. Accelerated commercialization in the twentieth century; 8. Managerial farming and family farming: draft-animal use; 9. Managerial farming and family farming: labor use; 10. The underdevelopment of managerial farming; 11. The persistence of small-peasant family farming; 12. The commercialization of production relations; Part III. The Village and the State: 13. Villages under the Qing state; 14. Changes in the village community; 15. Village and state in the twentieth century; 16. Conclusion; Appendixes; Character list; Index.