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Traditional Property Concepts in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2011

H. F. Schurmann
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It is not wrong to say that the nature and intent of a society reveal themselves in the legal and customary concepts of property held by the various members and classes of that society. These property concepts do not change without an incipient or fundamental change in the nature of the society itself. The history of property relations in a given society is thus, in a way, the history of the society itself.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , August 1956 , pp. 507 - 516
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1956

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2 On these terms, see Hoang, Pierre, Notions techniques sur la propriété en Chine (Shanghai, 1897), pp. 5f.Google Scholar

3 Cf. Noboru, Niida, Tōsō hōritsu monjo no kenkyū (The Critical Study on Legal Documents of the T'ang and Sung Eras) (Tokyo, 1937), pp. 116–117Google Scholar; cf., also, Noboru, Niida, “Kan-gi-rikuchō ni okeru tochi baibai monjo no sobyō” [“Sketch of Land Sale Documents in the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties (Period)”], Rekishigaku kenkyū, VI (1936), 71.Google Scholar

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11 Eberhard states that the figure varied between 4.8 and 5.5 individuals per household for the last two millenia; see Eberhard, Wolfram, “Bemerkungen zu den statistischen Angaben der Han-Zeit,” TP, XXXVI (1941), 4.Google Scholar

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17 Personal information derived from western Afghanistan.