twentieth centuries. These letters-cum-remittances document the changing history of the diaspora in different parts of the world … contribution to our understanding of modern Chinese history and to the comparative study of global migration"--Provided by …

(empirics); 5. Kinship hierarchies in Late Imperial history; 6. Property institutions and agricultural capitalism; Conclusion …"Tying together cultural history, legal history, and institutional economics, The Laws and Economics of Confucianism …: Kinship and Property in Pre-Industrial China and England offers a novel argument as to why Chinese and English pre …