Talk:Baojia system

Number of households
While not necessarily the definitive authority, the Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press Chinese-English dictionary states that each jia was made up of 10 households and each bao made up of 10 jia. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.157.140.149 (talk) 00:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

Dating to BCE
According to Companion to Chinese History by Hugh B. O'Neill, the origin of pao chia "is sometimes attributed to the Legalist official Shang Yang of the Warring States Period (484-255 B.C.). Under the system each household belongs to a group of 10, called a p'ai; ten p'ai formed formed a chia of 100 families, and 10 chia formed a pao of 1,000 families." His source is: Hsiao, Kung-ch'uan. Rural China. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1960. Wakablogger2 (talk) 06:56, 12 April 2011 (UTC)