02216nam a22003138a 4500 CR9781107070455 UkCbUP 20180107143416.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 130409s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781107070455 (ebook) 9781107046221 (hardback) 9781107675643 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda HN740.Z9 C6522 2013 307.1/4120951 23 McDermott, Joseph P., author. The Making of a New Rural Order in South China : I. Village, Land, and Lineage in Huizhou, 900–1600 Volume 1 / [electronic resource] Joseph P. McDermott. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (480 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). Among the large caches of private documents discovered and collected in China, few rival the Huizhou sources for the insight they provide into Chinese local society and economy over the past millennium. Having spent decades researching these exceptionally rich sources, Joseph P. McDermott presents in two volumes his findings about the major social and economic changes in this important prefecture of south China from around 900 to 1700. In this first volume, we learn about village settlement, competition among village religious institutions, premodern agricultural production, the management of land and lineage, the rise of the lineage as the dominant institution, and its members' application of commercial practices to local forestry operations. This landmark study of religious life and economic activity, of lineage and land, and of rural residents and urban commercial practices provides a compelling new framework for understanding a distinctive path of economic and social development for premodern China and beyond. Print version: 9781107046221 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107070455 Cambridge Books Online 236804 236804