Fate and Fortune in Rural China Lee Campbell Paperback 9780521039697

Fate and Fortune in Rural ChinaSocial Organization and Population Behavior in Liaoning 17741873\nAuthor(s): James Z. Lee, Cameron D. Campbell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521039697, 978-0521039697\nSynopsis\nFate and Fortune in Rural China is a major contribution to the study of both the social and population history of late traditional China, and that of historical demography in general. Lee and Campbell use the example of Liaoning to demonstrate the interaction between demographic and other social pressures, and to illustrate graphically the nature of social mobility and social organization in rural China over the course of the century from [tel]. Their conclusion - that social norms, rooted in ideology, determined demographic performance - is supported by a mass of hitherto inaccessible primary data. The authors show how the Chinese state articulated two different principles of social h.