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Zhongguo chuantong diquan zhidu jiqi bianqian 中国传统地权制度及其变迁 By Long Denggao 龙登高. Beijing: Zhongguo shehui kexue, 2018. 242 pp. 69.00 yuan. - Chuantong Zhongguo diquan jiegou jiqi yanbian 传统中国地权结构及其演变 By Cao Shuji 曹树基 and Liu Shigu 刘诗古. Shanghai: Shanghai Jiaotong daxue, 2014. 320 pp. 50.00 yuan. - The Laws and Economics of Confucianism: Kinship and Property in Preindustrial China and England By Taisu Zhang. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 308 pp. $116.00.
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