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Rural China; imperial control in the nineteenth century

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The article was published on 1960-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 276 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Rural sociology & Rural history.

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Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China, Part I

TL;DR: In this paper, a partial description and preliminary analysis of rural marketing in China is presented, where the authors show that marketing structures of the kind described here for China appear to be characteristic of the whole class of civilizations known as "peasant" or "traditional agrarian" societies.
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A Surplus of Men, A Deficit of Peace: Security and Sex Ratios in Asia's Largest States

TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that the long-term security trajectory of a region is affected by the relationship between violence against women and violence within and between societies, and demonstrate that this relationship can be traced to exaggerated gender inequality.
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Insiders and Outsiders: The Xiangtan Riot of 1819 and Collective Action in Hunan

TL;DR: The closed province of Hunan as mentioned in this paper was the first closed province in China, and it was named after the cliquey exclusiveness of the Hunanese, who were noted for their independence and haughty exclusiveness, not only towards Foreigners, but even to Natives from other provinces.
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The Cambridge History of China

TL;DR: In this paper, Fairbank and Kuhn discuss the origins of the Taiping Rebellion and the creation of the treaty system in the early 1800s, and their impact on the development of Western technology.
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Political, Social, and Cultural Reproduction via Civil Service Examinations in Late Imperial China

TL;DR: Most previous scholarship about the civil service examination system in imperial China has emphasized the degree of social mobility such examinations permitted in a premodern society as discussed by the authors, but these a priori judgments are often expressed teleologically when tied to the "modernization narrative" that still pervades our historiography of Ming (1368-1644) and Ch'ing (1644-1911) dynasty China.