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MANSLAUGHTER, MARKETS, AND MORAL ECONOMY

China's remarkable economic expansion in the eighteenth century -

propelled by large-scale changes in agriculture, demographics, land use,

and property rights - had far-reaching social consequences. One impor-

tant result of the growing population and deepening commercialization

of the rural economy was a relative scarcity of land. Just as this problem

increased, the new complexity of property rights in land outgrew the

customary law, challenging long-held traditions and the shared ideology

that governed economic exchange and land ownership in rural China.

In this book, Thomas Buoye reconstructs and analyzes the everyday

struggles of the common people to cope with changing concepts and

laws regarding property rights in this shifting social landscape. Drawing

on a large body of documented homicide cases originating in property

disputes during the Qianlong reign (1736-1795), he vividly reveals the

competing visions of social justice and economic self-interest that existed

in rural society at this time. This unique window onto Chinese society

allows new insight into China's protracted struggle, beginning in the late

Ming and continuing through the Qing dynasty, to come to grips with

the increasing privatization of land and to refine and enforce property

rights accordingly.

Buoye's historical analysis challenges the "markets" and the "moral

economy" theories of economic behavior. Applying the theories of

Douglass North for the first time to this subject, the author uses an in-

stitutional framework to explain seemingly irrational economic choices.

He examines demographic and technological factors, ideology, and

political and economic institutions in rural China to understand the link

between economic change and social conflict.

Thomas M. Buoye is Associate Professor of History at the University of

Tulsa. He is the author of A Study Guide to the Chinese: Adapting the Past,

Facing the Future (University of Michigan Center for Chinese Studies Pub-

lication, 1991). His articles have appeared in Late Imperial China and

Peasant Studies.

Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions

General Editor, Denis Twitchett

MANSLAUGHTER, MARKETS, AND MORAL ECONOMY

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Manslaughter,

Markets, and

Moral Economy

Violent Disputes over

Property Rights in

Eighteenth-century China

Thomas M. Buoye

University of Tulsa

CAMBRIDGE

UNIVERSITY PRESS

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