The Making of a Hinterland: State, Society, and Economy in Inland North China, 1853-1937This wholly original reassessment of critical issues in modern Chinese history traces social, economic, and ecological change in inland North China during the late Qing dynasty and the Republic. Using many new sources, Kenneth Pomeranz argues that the development of certain regions entailed the systematic underdevelopment of other regions. He maps changes in local finance, farming, transportation, taxation, and popular protest, and analyzes the consequences for different classes, sub-regions, and genders. Pomeranz attributes these diverse developments to several causes: the growing but incomplete integration of North China into the world economy, the state's abandonment of many hinterland areas and traditional functions, and the effect of local social structures on these processes. He shows that hinterlands were made, not merely found, and were powerfully shaped by the strategies of local groups as well as outside forces. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Territory | 4 |
The Time Frame | 12 |
State Market and Integration in HuangYun | 13 |
Political Economy and Chinese Development | 18 |
A Theoretical Perspective | 20 |
Local Interest Story Political Power and Regional Patterns in the Credit and Currency Markets | 27 |
Shandongs Regional Credit Markets | 32 |
Isolation Fuel Shortages and Deforestation | 123 |
The Fuel Shortage and the Logic of SelfStrengthening | 138 |
Reforestation and Its Dicountent | 142 |
Ecology Transportation and Marginality | 146 |
Sold Down the River? | 153 |
The Central Governments Withdrawal | 154 |
New Priorities New Austerity and Missed Opportunities | 164 |
Social and Political Bases of Local Paralysis | 168 |
The Durablity of Regional Economic Differences | 36 |
Credit Markets and Other Regional Economic Bounaries | 37 |
Regional Currency Markets | 40 |
Local Public Finance | 45 |
Supralocal Authorites and Political Selfprotection | 47 |
Private Grain | 50 |
The Powerful | 52 |
The General Population | 56 |
Fragmented Markets and Regional Economic Performance | 59 |
Fragmented Markets and State Making | 65 |
Community Coercion and Cotton | 69 |
New Crop Varieties | 72 |
Gleaning and Subsistence | 82 |
Crop Watching and Cotton Societies | 88 |
Regional Variation and Local Leadership | 101 |
Permeability Openness and Socioeconomic Change | 114 |
Ecological Crisis and the Logic of Selfstrengthening | 120 |
The Cycle of Technical Backwardness | 178 |
Yellow River Control in HuangYun | 193 |
Redistributing the Flood Problem | 201 |
Dealing with the Disaster | 212 |
The Economic Costs of Hydraulic Decay | 213 |
The Gentry and the Foreigners | 222 |
The Warlord Years | 235 |
The Formal Government Rural Bosses and Local Resistance | 238 |
The Engineers and the Soldiers | 253 |
HuangYun China and the World | 267 |
List of Counties in Northwest and Southwest Shandong | 285 |
Agricultural Losses from Hydraulic Decay | 287 |
Extra Transport Costs Incurred Because of Hydraulic Decay in HuangYun | 293 |
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