Rural China / Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century 

 - 2nd 
 -  University Of Washington Press,  1972 
 - 786 
<br/><br/> A study of the administrative apparatus which helped the emperors ''to assure obedience and forestall rebellions''.  The Divisions of Rural Areas, Villages and Markets and Towns, Administrative Divisions: Pao-chia and Li-chia, Rural Control, Police Control: The Pao-chia System, Tax Collection in Rural Areas: The Li-chia System, Famine Control: She-ts'ang and Other Granaries, Ideological Control: The Hsiang-yueh and Other Institutions, The Effects of Control, The Effects of Control on the Village, The Clan and Rural Control, Rural Reactions to Control: I, Rural Reactions to Control: II, Summary and Postscript, Appendices, Tables of Transliteration, Reigns and Emperors of the Ch'ing Dynasty, Bibliography, Index. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>295978554