Institutional change and rural industrialization in China: the putting-out system in handicraft industry in late Qing and early Republic period
In: Peking University series on sociology and anthropology vol. 5
Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1 Introduction: Smithian Growth or Involution Growth? -- 1. Recession Theory -- 2. Stagnation Theory -- 3. Development Theory -- Chapter 2 Literature Review on the Handicraft Industry and Institutional Change -- The Myth of the Handicraft Industry's Fate -- Properties of the Handicraft Industry: Proto-industrialization and Smithian Growth -- Regional Distribution of Growth of the Handicraft Industry -- Power of the Handicraft Industry: The Putting-out System and Institutional Changes -- Research Hypothesis and Evidence -- Research Areas and Scope -- Chapter 3 Proto-industrialization in the Industrial Era: A Historical Study about the Cotton Textile Industry in North China -- Starting from Trade: Local Bazaar, Regional Market and Remote Trade -- South-North Mutual Transportation of Cotton in the Ming Dynasty (Before 1644) -- Cotton Cloth Trade in the Flourishing Times of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1840) -- The Cotton of North China Was Exported to Distant Counties: The Beginning of Proto-industrialization -- Proto-industrialization in the Late Qing Dynasty and the Early Republic of China (1840-1937) -- Output of Commercial Cloth -- Use of Labor Force -- Income from Spinning -- Chapter 4 "Involution" and "Industrialization": Investigation of the Cotton Textile Industry in the South of the Yangtze River -- The "Female Industrialization" of Songjiang Prefecture in Ming and Qing Dynasties (1573-1840) -- Population and Land -- Prosperous Cotton Textile Industry -- Marginal Income -- The Marginal Output of Agricultural Work -- The "Sudden" Decline of Songjiang Cotton Textile Industry at the End of the Ming Dynasty and the Beginning of Republic of China -- Rural Industrialization in Shanghai -- Proto-industrialization outside Songjiang Region.
