...Leopoldo T. Ruiz Abstract For centuries farm tenancy has been one of the main sources of misery and discontent in the rural areas of the Philippines. Basically it has been the cause of the agrarian disturbances which have so often seriously threatened the peace and security of the nation. Any...

...Madeleine Zelin Abstract This article, based on newly opened archives, explores the rights of tenants in the neighborhood of Chongqing during the late-eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries. Changes in tenancy arrangements are discussed within the context of Chongqing's role as the main...

...Ramon H. Myers; Adrienne Ching Abstract Studies of Asian agriculture have argued that land-tenure systems have often retarded agricultural development, in that unequal land distribution and widespread tenancy have given peasants little power to resist landlord efforts to squeeze and rack-rent them...

... it as a tenant's right. Therefore, in these regions the British sought tenancy legislation on behalf of cultivating peasants. A major step in this direction was the Bengal Tenancy Act of 1885, which set the precedent for similar legislation in other provinces, and for further privileges for "substantial peasants...

... might emerge for agrarian studies. Anjan Datta has organized the book with long chapters on tenancy and wage labor relations, followed by much shorter ones on migration and state interventions in rural relations in a way that does not, however, seize upon these opportunities. The extended examination...

... of wage or fixed-rent contracts during the 1930s significantly increased the income instability for peasant farmers. Share tenancy contracts are widely believed to provide for risk sharing, yet Scott's arguments need to be examined more closely. First, Scott overlooks other relevant explanations...

... of Szechwan Province. The chief topics of study are farm business, farm tenancy, production costs of four important crops, farm credit, marketing of the three most important cereals and prices paid and received by farmers." Here are a few of the facts and conclusions: tenancy is prevalent in Szechwan 47...

... in these publications tend to overlap, supplement, or contradict one another. This applies to much of the contents of Kenzo Horii's book in the sense that most of the issues he addresses are currently much debated: these include land size problems, water control, marketing, the importance of kinship in tenancy...

... that they, not the church, owned the land. Kerkvliet contended that reforming the tenancy system was the basic theme of peasant unrest elsewhere in Central Luzon but only secondary on the church lands. Kerkvliet's suggestion that an explanation may well lie in the complex history of church lands inspired Michael Connolly...

... relations in “Agricultural Enterprise and Rural Class Relations,” American Journal of Sociology , 67 ( 1961 – 1962 ) , particularly the portion on family sized tenancy. 4 The term is that of E. P. Thompson who applies it in a similar fashion to the early English working class and their attitude...

... . 53 Ishii Ryoichi , Population Pressure and Economic Life in Japan ( Chicago , 1937 ), pp. 14 – 16 . 52 Norman, pp. 71-77, 169. 51 Norman, p. 72. 50 Ike, p. 169. 49 If it is true that large-scale tenancy was in fact a hang-over from...

... this study informative. However, this work should not be regarded as the last word on this important subject, nor is it without methodological defects. First, the author has not attempted to determine if resource allocation under the pre1949 share tenancy system which was based on private property...

... in north China commodate sharply opposing views on landholding during the northern Song, see also Song 1954/ and tenancy. Kawahara 1964 discusses, chapter by 1962, pp. 111 25. chapter, many of the Song circuits; for a review, see RURAL CHINA IN THE SONG 293 oe , X | fi) /f ia ;? -vHtutl 1 f 1xl 5 7HEBEI...

... . While accepting these figures on their face value one must exercise caution in using them for purposes of comparison from region to region as well as with other countries, such as the United States. The percentages of tenancy in China and in America may approximate each other, but the meaning of tenancy...

... where interesting new insights might emerge for agrarian studies. Anjan Datta has organized the book with long chapters on tenancy and wage labor relations, followed by much shorter ones on migration and state interventions in rural relations in a way that does not, however, seize upon...

... of intermediary tenures; reform of the tenancy system, including fixation of fair rent at onefifth to one-fourth of the gross produce and security of tenure for the tenant; extension of owner-cultivation; ceilings on land holdings making possible a redistribution of surplus land among landless laborers...

... and the peasant-based movement he led in the 1920s and 1930s. Sheel's story of Jiangxi rural society moves from the collapse of the Ming manorial system to the rise of modern landlordism and a free peasantry by the early eighteenth century. A characteristic feature of Xinjiang landlordism was permanent tenancy...

..., Francks reiterates the oft-repeated view that the growth of a rural market economy led inevitably to the polarization of rural society that is, rural capitalism made the rich richer and the poor poorer. The primary evidence that Francks advances to support this contention is the growth of tenancy...

... its inception this interpretation has been sharply opposed by a group of scholars often associated with Tokyo University. Kato Shigeshi's 1917 and 1928 studies of the T'ang and Sung manor and Suto Yoshiyuki's and Niida Noboru's later analyses of Sung tenancy confirmed Naito's claim that during...

... neither Basu's grand vision, nor too hazardous a guess. Insufficient investment is likewise addressed by Utsa Patnaik's "Tenancy and Accumulation." Patnaik argues cogently for the importance of class differentiation among agricultural households for accumulation. The inadequacy of mainstream work...