{"product_id":"village-governance-in-north-china-huaiyin-li-9780804750912","title":"Village Governance in North China: 1875-1936","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book is about village governance in China during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Drawing on government archives from Huailu county, Hebei province, it explores local practices and official systems of social control, land taxation, and \"self government\" at the village level. Its analysis of peasant behaviors bridges the gap between the rational choice and moral economy models by taking into account both material and symbolic dimensions of power and interest in the peasant community. The author's interpretation of village\/state relations before 1900 transcends the state and society dichotomy and accentuates the interplay between formal and informal institutions and practices. His account of \"state making\" after 1900 underscores the continuity of endogenous arrangements in the course of institutional formalization and the interpenetration between official discourse and popular notions in the new process of political legitimization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Huaiyin Li\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804750912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804750912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/09\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.38h x 6.62w x 0.97d","brand":"Huaiyin Li","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065146355967,"sku":"9780804750912","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_765d4b75-457e-4965-8713-6fa02e4ea8b4.jpg?v=1768673300","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/village-governance-in-north-china-huaiyin-li-9780804750912","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}