Description: Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance by Kathryn Bernhardt Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Description Examining rents and taxes in 19th- and 20th-century China, this text shows how in real terms, tax burdens on landlords rose due to higher state levies. Simultaneously, rents earned by landlords fell due to state interference and peasant resistance, csusing a progressive weakening of landlord power. Publisher Description Throughout Chinas long imperial history, the political-economic system was supported mainly by the rents and taxes collected from the peasantry. The survival of the system depended on orderly relations between landlords and tenants and between the state and landowners. In the century before the Communist triumph in 1949, both sets of relations were profoundly changed. How did this transformation come about? With the commercially advanced lower Yangzi region as its focus, this book provides the most comprehensive treatment to date of rents and taxes in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China. It demonstrates that the tax burden on landlords, relative to price changes, increased as a result of expanded levies by the state. At the same time, the rents received by landlords, relative to price changes, declined as a result of both state interference and peasant resistance. The result was a progressive weakening of landlord power. Past scholarship has generally dealt separately with either landlord-tenant relations, seen through rent, or state-society relations, seen through taxes.By analyzing the two together, this study provides a distinctive view of the political-economic structure involving the three-way relationship between state, elite, and peasant. It demonstrates how that structure changed in the lower Yangzi valley during the century before the Communist victory through declining landlord power, increased state intervention, and expanded tenant collective action. Earlier studies have argued either for class revolution or for Communist conspiracy as the dynamic behind the twentieth-century revolution. This book offers a new perspective by suggesting that the old social-political system in this region was destroyed not by the revolutionary action of either the many or the few, but by a long-term process of change that left landlordism tottering on the verge of collapse even before the Communist Partys rise to power.I n this study of power and property relations and popular protest in rural China the author provides new information on such subjects as the tax and rent policies of the Taiping rebels during their occupation of the region from 1860 to 1864, the evolution of state-sponsored rent-dunning bureaus in the post-Taiping era, and the growing involvement of government officials in the determination of rents in the Republican period. The work is distinguished throughout by new and extensive statistical data on rents, taxes, and prices. Author Biography Kathryn Bernhardt is Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. Details ISBN 0804718806 ISBN-13 9780804718806 Title Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance Author Kathryn Bernhardt Format Hardcover Year 1992 Pages 344 Publisher Stanford University Press GE_Item_ID:144704653; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys
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ISBN-13: 9780804718806
Book Title: Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Rents, Taxes, and Peasant Resistance : the Lower Yangzi Region, 1840-1950
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 1992
Subject: Revolutionary, Economic Conditions, Asia / China, Taxation / General
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Subject Area: Business & Economics, History
Author: Kathryn Bernhardt
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
