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Article: Huaiyin Li. Village Governance in North China 1875-1936.(Book review)
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- China Review International
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- September 22, 2005
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Huaiyin Li. Village Governance in North China 1875-1936. Stanford University Press, 2005. xii, 325 pp. Hardcover $60.00, ISBN 0-8047-5091-2.
This book is a hugely informative study of the changing relation between villages and the state during the late Qing and early Republican periods based on the unusually abundant archives of Huailu County on the southwestern edge of the North China plain. At the core of the book is the changing nature of the rural tax system and its impact on local society. The key role of taxation in shaping both state-society relations and relations within the society is a widely accepted feature of earlier Chinese history, but this has ...