Regional Society

32 books

Peoples, Settlements, and Local Society: A Preliminary Study of Historical Geography in the Medieval South cover
Peoples, Settlements, and Local Society: A Preliminary Study of Historical Geography in the Medieval South 鲁西奇 Xiamen University Press · 2012 This book is a historical geography monograph by Lu Xiqi on demographic and social change in the medieval South (especially the middle Yangtze region)…
Hongshan Yearbook (2024) cover
Rating 3.6
Hongshan Yearbook (2024) 红山区档案史志馆 / 红山区地方志编纂委员会 · 2025 As part of the Chifeng Yearbook Series 2024, this volume is sponsored by the Chifeng Municipal People's Government and compiled and published by its L…
Engineering the State: Huai River Governance and State Building in the Republican Era (1927-1937) cover
Rating 4.0
Engineering the State: Huai River Governance and State Building in the Republican Era (1927-1937) 戴维·艾伦·佩兹 / 姜志芹 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2024 Grounded in a survey of nearly two thousand years of water conservancy in China, this book focuses on the governance of the Huai River during the Repu…
The Flow of Tea: Material, Space and Historical Narrative in the Mountainous Areas of Northern Fujian (1644-1949) cover
Rating 4.0
The Flow of Tea: Material, Space and Historical Narrative in the Mountainous Areas of Northern Fujian (1644-1949) 肖坤冰 Peking University Press · 2025 This book examines the development of regional society in the mountainous northern Fujian area from 1644 to 1949, centered on tea production and trade…
The South China Sea Salt Route: Changes in Production Space and Circulation Mechanisms in the Guangdong-Guangxi Salt Region, 16th–19th Centuries cover
Rating 3.7
The South China Sea Salt Route: Changes in Production Space and Circulation Mechanisms in the Guangdong-Guangxi Salt Region, 16th–19th Centuries 段雪玉 SDX Joint Publishing Company · 2026 This book traces the regional and economic history of Guangdong's salt administration through the institutional changes of the Guangdong-Guangxi salt …
A Study of Chen Fuliang's Family Background: Centered on the Chen Clan of Xihe, Rui'an cover
Rating 3.5
A Study of Chen Fuliang's Family Background: Centered on the Chen Clan of Xihe, Rui'an 王兴文 / 苏尔胜 China Culture and History Press · 2025 Chen Fuliang (1137–1203), courtesy name Junju, art name Zhizhai, was a native of Fengcun, Rui'an, Wenzhou, Zhejiang (present-day Luofeng Subdistrict, …
Reconstructing Institutions: Salt Household Taxes, Markets, and Order in the Pearl River Estuary Salt Fields during the Ming and Qing Dynasties cover
Rating 4.0
Reconstructing Institutions: Salt Household Taxes, Markets, and Order in the Pearl River Estuary Salt Fields during the Ming and Qing Dynasties 李晓龙 Social Sciences Academic Press (SSAP) · 2025 Salt was a vital resource tied to the national economy and people's livelihood in traditional times, and how to manage salt production had always been…
Stepping Out of a Closed World: A Regional Social Study of the Upper Yangtze River (1644–1911) (Third Edition) cover
Rating 4.8
Stepping Out of a Closed World: A Regional Social Study of the Upper Yangtze River (1644–1911) (Third Edition) 王笛 Peking University Press · 2025 This book offers a systematic analysis of society, culture, politics and economy in the upper Yangtze region, centered on Sichuan, from 1644 to 1911, …
Local Gazetteer of Xiangshan County cover
Rating 2.6
Local Gazetteer of Xiangshan County Anonymous · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive f…
The Dehua Stele of Nanzhao cover
Rating 3.9
The Dehua Stele of Nanzhao 郑回 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought has a long lineage and is highly original, inventive and literary. Its early forms are distinctive: religious theology, me…
Record of Nanyongzhou cover
Rating 2.8
Record of Nanyongzhou 王韶 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive f…
Record of the Southern Migration cover
Rating 3.0
Record of the Southern Migration 张师颜 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive f…
Gazetteer of Nanping County cover
Rating 2.8
Gazetteer of Nanping County 吴栻 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive f…
Record of Nankang cover
Rating 3.0
Record of Nankang 邓德明 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history and are highly original, inventive and literary. Early forms of thought have distinctive f…
Gazetteer of Nanhai cover
Rating 3.6
Gazetteer of Nanhai 陈大震 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture have a long history, marked by a high degree of originality, inventiveness and literary quality. Early intelle…
Local Gazetteer of Houguan County cover
Rating 3.0
Local Gazetteer of Houguan County 郑祖庚 · 2024 Traditional Chinese thought and culture has a long history and is highly original, inventive, and literary. Its early forms are distinctive: religious…
Agricultural Administration and Finance: The Ming and Qing Social Economy cover
Rating 4.1
Agricultural Administration and Finance: The Ming and Qing Social Economy 吴滔 Zhonghua Book Company · 2024 This book examines the warehouse system, salt administration, military garrison system, and fiscal taxation and corvée systems of the Ming and Qing dy…
Jiangnan Social History Review (Vol. 21) cover
Rating 3.8
Jiangnan Social History Review (Vol. 21) 唐力行 The Commercial Press · 2024 This volume collects over 20 papers by scholars in China and abroad on Jiangnan and Jiangnan society. Among them, Professor Wang Zhenzhong of Fudan Un…
Suiyuan Historiography 2022 cover
Rating 3.4
Suiyuan Historiography 2022 南京师范大学历史系 Jiangsu People's Publishing House · 2023 This is a collection of essays covering various periods of Chinese history and country-specific and thematic studies of world history. In Chinese hist…
Passing Down Poetry and Rites: Changes in Jiangnan Family Traditions and Precepts cover
Rating 3.7
Passing Down Poetry and Rites: Changes in Jiangnan Family Traditions and Precepts Ye Zhou Shanghai Bookstore Publishing House · 2022 This book focuses on the inheritance, development, and innovation of family traditions and family precepts in the Jiangnan region. By comprehensively …