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Social and Economic History of Guangdong Province: State of the Field

The Guangdong region has long attracted the attention of Chinese social and economic historians. As early as the 1930s, Chen Hansheng (1934), Luo Xianglin (1933), Liang Jiabin (1937) and other scholars conducted pioneering and authoritative research on rural production, the livelihood of the Boat People (danjia), the origins of the Guest People (kejia), the Thirteen Hong and the Guangdong Maritime Customs and other topics on Guangdong. From 1949 to 1979, Mainland Chinese scholars who worked on Guangdong maintained a long-term interest in the problem of embryonic capitalist sprouts, as exemplified by monographs on textile industries, the production of commercialized crops, merchants and mercantile capital, foreign trade and other problems of the Ming-Qing period (e.g. Li 1979; Peng 1957; Peng 1981). Especially noteworthy is Professor Liang Fangzhong who served as chairman of the economics department at Lingnan University beginning in 1949 and then as professor of history at Zhongshan University. His definitive research has influenced scholars of younger generations enormously. Today scholars working on the social and economic history of Guangdong during the MingQing period at Zhongshan University, Jinan University and the Guangdong Provincial Academy of Social Sciences ( Guangdong sheng shehui kexueyuan) axe almost entirely his former assistants and graduate students and their students.