Bandits, Bosses, and Bare Sticks

Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World.

Gayl D. Ness, Barrington Moore · American Sociological Review · 1967 · 2.3K citations

Regime Analysis, Democracy, Political Development +7

Marketing and Social Structure in Rural China, Part I

G. William Skinner · The Journal of Asian Studies · 1964 · 680 citations

Rural Economy, Rural Sociology, East Asian Studies +13

Local Government in China under the Ch'ing

Wolfram Eberhard, Tung-tsu Chu · The American Historical Review · 1963 · 239 citations

Bureaucracy, Local Government, Chinese Politics +1

The Erosion of Patron-Client Bonds and Social Change in Rural Southeast Asia

James C. Scott · The Journal of Asian Studies · 1972 · 237 citations

Colonialism, East Asian Studies, Economic Development +20

Rural China: Imperial Control in the Nineteenth Century.

Maurice Freedman, Kung-chuan Hsiao · Pacific Affairs · 1963 · 229 citations

Colonialism, East Asian Studies, Language Studies +2