Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS vii
3. CONTENTS ix
4. TABLES xi
5. MAPS AND FIGURE xiii
6. INTRODUCTION 1
7. CHAPTER 1 Landlords, Tenants, and the State in the Early and Mid-Qing 13
8. CHAPTER 2 Popular Resistance in the 1840's and 1850's 43
9. CHAPTER 3 The Taiping Occupation of Jiangnan, 1860- 1864 84
10. CHAPTER 4 Reconstruction and Post-Taiping Rural Society, 1864- 1911 117
11. CHAPTER 5 Landlords, Tenants, and the State in the Republican Period, 1912- 1937 161
12. CHAPTER 6 Popular Resistance in the Republican Period, 1912- 1937 189
13. CONCLUSION 225
14. APPENDIXES
15. APPENDIX A Collective Actions Against Rents and Taxes in Jiangnan, 1840- 1936 235
16. APPENDIX B Tax, Rent, and Price Data 244
17. APPENDIX C The Population of Jiangnan 250
18. NOTES 259
19. REFERENCES CITED 287
20. CHARACTER LIST 311
21. INDEX 319