Institutional and Secondary Landlordism in the Pearl River Delta, 1600-1949

Bibliographic Data

ID6007897
AuthorsRobert Y Eng (University of Redlands, corresponding author)
Year1986
Volume12
Issue1
Pages3-37
Publication date1986-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueModern China (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0097-7004 • E-ISSN: 1552-6836
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/009770048601200101
OpenAlexW1993005168
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited9

The structure of Chinese rural society, the causes of the agricultural depression during the Republican era, and their relationship to the Communist Revolution of 1949 have long been subjects of ideological and scholarly debate. There are two principal schools of interpretation: the distributionist school, with which many Chinese nationalists and Marxists may be identified, and the technologist school, into which many Western scholars fall.' For the distributionists, Chinese rural society was characterized by maldistribution of wealth, the symptoms of which were the increasing concentration of landownership and growing tenancy, and the concomitant exploitation of tenants by landlords through rack rents, usurious interest rates, and price manipulations. The implication was that drastic land reform or social revolution was necessary to end China's rural crisis

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