By Joseph P. McDermott
ISBN-10: 110704622X
ISBN-13: 9781107046221
One of the huge caches of personal records came across and picked up in China, few rival the Huizhou assets for the perception they supply into chinese language neighborhood society and economic climate during the last millennium. Having spent a long time studying those highly wealthy resources, Joseph P. McDermott offers in volumes his findings concerning the significant social and fiscal alterations during this vital prefecture of south China from round 900 to 1700. during this first quantity, we know about village payment, pageant between village spiritual associations, premodern agricultural construction, the administration of land and lineage, the increase of the lineage because the dominant establishment, and its contributors' program of industrial practices to neighborhood forestry operations. This landmark examine of non secular lifestyles and fiscal job, of lineage and land, and of rural citizens and concrete advertisement practices presents a compelling new framework for realizing a particular course of monetary and social improvement for premodern China and past.
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In the October 1957 issue of the Wenwu cankao ziliao Yu Tingguang reported the finding of land 26 27 Zhai Tunjian, “Huizhou wenshu,” 112. Of these 70,000-odd volumes, over 6,700 were subsequently selected and purchased by the China Book Store in Beijing and the Shanghai Old Books Bookstore. 12, 180–82. 30 In November of 1959 the same journal (renamed Wenwu) mentioned the discovery of additional contracts and other documents in the former Huizhou county of Wuyuan. In the next nine years the Old Books Bookstore in Tunxi saw to the transfer of these rescued documents and books from private and public government storage in Huizhou to the collections of major universities, research institutes, and libraries elsewhere.
Bin Wong, China Transformed: Historical Change and the Limits of European Experience (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1997); and Kenneth Pomeranz, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000). 16 Introduction clearer understanding not just of the strengths of the economy that Wong and Pomeranz describe, but also of the difficulties that its institutions – that is, these village institutions – suffered in more recent centuries when a radical change of circumstances made it necessary to create new, more efficient commercial and financial institutions to carry out what Chinese had long done less publicly but often profitably.
Huizhou seems a singularly inappropriate choice for making a study with broad implications for other parts of China, since it was usually judged by Ming and Qing commentators as exceptionally concerned with commerce and lineage institutions. Yet, mindful of the way that Dunhuang studies have often been marginalized by Tang historians professing interest in the broader history of that dynasty, I have tried to identify in Huizhou those types of village institution that were commonly found throughout the rest of China: village worship associations; formal religious institutions like Buddhist temples; and, less so, Daoist shrines, popular religious shrines, and large kinship groups.