Title: Study on the Historic Change of Land-Ownership from Western Zhou Dynasty to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Period
Abstract: Mastering the resource ownership relationship is the premise and basis of cognizing one society. Land problem had been a core issue in Chinese Feudal Society,which can be divided into three stages:the feudal lord society in Western Zhou Dynasty; the transitional feudal society from the Spring and Autumn Period to Warring States Period; the feudal landlord society from Qin and Han Dynasty to Ming and Qing Dynasty. Based on a historical perspective,the study on land-ownership and its historic change from Western Zhou Dynasty to the spring and autumn period and Warring States Period will be very important for analyzing the whole Chinese Feudal Society. Therefore,firstly,this paper analyses the historic change of feudal lords land-ownership and the well-farmland system in Western Zhou Dynasty,and criticizes the view of the stateowned system for this period. Secondly,this paper analyses a series of political reforms,land annexation phenomena and the double system of land-ownership from the Spring and Autumn Period to Warring States Period. Thirdly,this paper analyses the production,development and decline of the well-farmland system. Finally,this paper analyses the essential difference between the feudal lord land-ownership and the feudal landlord land-ownership.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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