thank you so much everybody for all the kind words and support yesterday! i got things in my eye several times last night reading all your lovely tweets (d*mn you!). i don't deserve such wonderful tweeps. (*^_^*)
don't know why my account was suspended. i emailed twitter support, but didn't get a reply, and then this a.m. my account was back.
oddly, a number of #HistoryTwitter accounts were suspended yesterday for reasons unknown. maybe i got caught up in whatever that was? Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
and i got 87 new followers since last night, so, hey! Β―\_(γ)_/Β―
welcome aboard new tweeps! ever heard of this thing called the #HajnalLine ...?
from The Agrarian Origins of Modern Japan (pub'd in 1959):
"...taking the country as a whole [changes to agricultural practices in Japan] fell mainly in the Tokugawa period, and their central feature was a shift from cooperative to individual farming."
land reform's an ancient practice in china. every dynasty took a shot at it, sometimes multiple times over.
here're zheng & huang comparing the communist "family plot system" to the zhou dynasty's "well-field system" of 2-3000 ya (books.google.com/books?id=CHpnDβ¦). nothing new in #China.
the short-lived qin dynasty that followed the zhou also tried land reform. the goal there was to break the power of large kin-groups (sound familiar?). (books.google.com/books?id=CvN0iβ¦)