List of maps, figures, and tables List of Qing dynasty emperors' reign dates List of weights and measures Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Economic change, social conflict, and property rights 2. 'Population increases daily': economic change during the eighteenth century 3. 'As before each manage their own property': boundary and water-rights disputes 4. 'Crafty and obdurate tenants': redemption, rent defaults, and evictions 5. Temporal and geographic distributions of property-rights disputes in Guangdong 6. Violence north, west, and south: property-rights disputes in Shandong, Sichuan, and Guangdong 7. 'You will be rich but not benevolent': changing concepts of legitimacy and violent disputes 8. Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Index.
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