"Among the many topics it discusses are techniques of police control, tax collections, and police indoctrination; educational facilities and religious life; econnomic and other activities in village and local clan, including such antisocial activities as banditry and rebellion; and, above all, the differeing roles of the great mass of peasantry and the much smaller group of local gentry in these and other matters..." -- from the back cover. Originally published in 1960.

Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century

Hsiao, Kung-chuan

University of Washington Press

1967

2007.066.520