caa a22 4500 386313199 CHVBK 20180307111555.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198807 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0010417500015310 doi S0010417500015310 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0010417500015310 Shepherd John R. New York City Rethinking Tenancy: Explaining Spatial and Temporal Variation in Late Imperial and Republican China [Elektronische Daten] [John R. Shepherd] Studies of the role of land tenure in the economic and social history of China are flawed by the unexamined assumption that the sale of land by impoverished farmers was the only process that generated high rates of tenancy and concentration of ownership of land. Debt-sales are assumed to occur as part of a cycle of immiserization in which a peasant population outgrows its landed resources and owner-farmers are forced to sell their lands and become the tenants or hired laborers of wealthy landlords. This essay demonstrates the improbability of such a scenario and establishes its opposite: that rates of tenancy and concentration of landownership rise, not in periods of economic decline but in periods of prosperity, and not through debt-sales but through the alternate processes of reclamation, migration, and changes in the mode of landlord farm management. Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1988 Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/3(1988-07), 403-431 0010-4175 30:3<403 1988 30 CSS https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500015310 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417500015310 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Shepherd John R. New York City NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Comparative Studies in Society and History Cambridge University Press 30/3(1988-07), 403-431 0010-4175 30:3<403 1988 30 CSS CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 224338722 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge