ABSTRACT

Examining the importance of regional differences in China's history, this text details the social, economic and political conditions of the central highlands at the end of the 19th century, and the early part of the 20th. Thus the nature and development of modern Chinese rural society is studied.

chapter 1|37 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|31 pages

Food

chapter 3|18 pages

Goods for Trade

chapter 4|19 pages

Commodity Distribution

chapter 5|27 pages

Tribute Money (I)

chapter 6|18 pages

Tribute Money (II)

chapter 7|27 pages

Cities and Fortresses

chapter 8|20 pages

A Martial and Romantic Traditon

chapter 9|21 pages

The Civil War Belt

chapter 10|25 pages

Two Rural Soviets

chapter 11|3 pages

Conclusion