经君健同志所著《清代社会的贱民等级》一书,已列为《中国社会史丛书》的一种,最近出版。这是一部对历史学、社会学、政治学和法律学等学科都具有学术价值的著作。 存在由社会地位特别低下、没有独立人格的人所构成的贱民等级,是封建国家普遍的社会现象。这种贱民等级在我国封建社会中早已存在。但到明代,封建国家的法律,开始对民人区分良贱。到了清代,封建国家才在法律中明确规定贱民的范围,把奴婢、堕民、丐户、九姓渔户、蛋户、佃仆、隶 Comrade Jun Jian’s book, “The level of pariah in the Qing dynasty,” has been listed as one of the “Series of Chinese Social History,” and recently published. This is a book on history, sociology, political science and law and other disciplines have academic value of the book. Existence of a pariah class constituted by those with particularly low social status and no independent personality is a common social phenomenon in feudal countries. This level of pariah in China’s feudal society already exists. However, by the Ming Dynasty, the laws of the feudal nation began to distinguish between good people and cheap people. In the Qing Dynasty, the feudal state clearly stipulated in the law the range of pariahs that the slaves, the emigrants, the beggars, the beggars, the beggars,