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On the “Feudal” Interpretation of Chou China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2015

Barry B. Blakeley
Barry B. Blakeley*
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Seton Hall University
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Early China , Volume 2 , Fall 1976 , pp. 35 - 37
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Copyright © Society for the Study of Early China 1976 

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FOOTNOTES

1. In this entire discussion I am deleting consideration of the Marxist “feudal” interpretation. There is little room for debate over the definition of the term in Marxist circles.

2. Maspero, Henri, Les Institutions de la Chine, ed. Escarra, Jean (Paris, 1952)Google Scholar and “Le régime féodal et la propriété foncière dans la Chine antique,” Mélanges posthumes sur les religions et l'histoire de la Chine” Vol. III (Paris, 1950)Google Scholar; Granet, Marcel, La Féodalité Chinoise (Oslo, 1952)Google Scholar.

3. AHR 79, no. 4 (10 1974), pp. 1063–1088 Google Scholar. For an early discussion of the topic, see Cronne, H.A., “Historical Revisions XCI--The Origins of Feudalism,” History 24 (1940), pp. 251–259 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

4. Bloch, Marc, Feudal Society, trans. Manyor, L.A. (Chicago, 1961), xvii–xviii Google Scholar.

5. Ibid., p. xiii

6. See, for example, Stephenson, Carl, “The Origin and Significance of Feudalism” AHR 46 (1941), pp. 797–808 Google Scholar; Ganshof, Francois L., Feudalism, trans. Grierson, P. (London, 1952), xvi Google Scholar; Vinogradoff, Paul, “Feudalism,” The Cambridge Medieval History, Volo III (New York, 1922), pp. 458–450Google Scholar.

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8. Brown, op. cit., p. 1065.

9. Ibid., pp. 1065-67.

10. Ibid., p. 1075.

11. Ibid., p. 1076.

12. Ibid., p. 1077.

13. Ibid., pp. 1080-1084.

14. Ibid., pp. 1067-1070, 1077, 1079-1080.

15. Princeton University Press, 1956.

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19. “Feudalism in China,” in Coulborn, op. cit., pp. 49-92.

20. The Origins of Statecraft in China. Vol. 1: The Western Chou Empire (Chicago, London, 1970), p. 32. n. 10Google Scholar; See also my review, HJAS 23 (1973), pp. 249–250 Google Scholar.

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22. Creel, op. cit.; Ch'i, op. cit.