The Making of a New Rural Order in South China

Volume 02: Merchants, Markets, and Lineages, 1500-1700

The Making of a New Rural Order in South China
Joseph P McDermott
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2 Jul 2020 UK
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9781107048515
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This volume is written for anyone who has wondered about the growth of Chinese businesses and their relation to Chinese family and government institutions. Making full use of its partner volume's findings on village institutions in the southern prefecture of Huizhou, this volume explains how late imperial China's key regional group of merchants emerged from this prefecture's village lineages. It identifies the strategies they deployed to overcome the serious obstacles to their domination of major financial transactions and commodity markets throughout much of China from 1500 to 1700. At the same time it describes how the commercial success enjoyed by these 'house firms' undermined their lineages' social stability, making them vulnerable to competition from popular religious cults back home. In recounting how rural and urban institutions interacted through state and economic development, McDermott provides a powerful new framework for understanding late imperial China's distinctive trajectory to social and economic transformation.
"Historians have long been aware that Huizhou, an isolated prefecture in the mountainous interior of modern Anhui province, has produced a body of documentation that is almost unparalleled in its coverage, detailing history at a local level beginning from the late Tang Dynasty through the twentieth century. The documents have attracted the attention of scholars for many decades, but now Joseph P. McDermott has used them to present a unique and incredibly valuable narrative of history at its most local level ... This is an important book grounded in meticulous research ..."
Hugo Clark, American Historical Review
"The history of South China is impossible to consider or to write without a historical map of its lineages, as eminent historian Joseph P. McDermott shows in his comprehensive study of rural Huishou, Anhui. The Making of a New Rural Order in South China is a brilliant example of how such work is done as history writing."
Venus Viana, International Journal of Asian Studies
Joseph P. McDermott is a Fellow of St John's College, University of Cambridge and has published and lectured widely on the social and economic history of pre-modern China. His recent books include The Making of a New Rural Order in South China, Volume 1 (Cambridge, 2013) and A Social History of the Chinese Book (2006).
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ISBN-13: 9781107048515
Published: 2 Jul 2020
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Hardback
Pages: 497

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