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020			_a9781316506288
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100			_aZhang, Taisu _97222
245			_aThe laws and economics of confucianism: kinship and property in pre-industrial China and England
260			_bCambridge University Press _aNew York _c2019
300			_ax, 308 p.
365			_aGBP _b23.99
504			_aTable of Contents 1. 'Dian' sales in Qing and Republican China 2. Mortgages in early modern England 3. Kinship, social hierarchy, and institutional divergence (theories) 4. Kinship, social hierarchy, and institutional divergence (empirics) 5. Kinship hierarchies in Late Imperial history 6. Property institutions and agricultural capitalism Conclusion Index.
520			_aTying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English preindustrial economic development went down different paths. The dominance of Neo-Confucian social hierarchies in Late Imperial and Republican China, under which advanced age and generational seniority were the primary determinants of sociopolitical status, allowed many poor but senior individuals to possess status and political authority highly disproportionate to their wealth. In comparison, landed wealth was a fairly strict prerequisite for high status and authority in the far more 'individualist' society of early modern England, essentially excluding low-income individuals from secular positions of prestige and leadership. Zhang argues that this social difference had major consequences for property institutions and agricultural production.
650			_aConfucianism--Economic aspects _97223
650			_aConfucianism and law _97224
942			_2ddc _cBK