Liu The Chinese Market Economy, 1000–1500

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4384-5569-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 394 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm

Documents the rise and fall of a market economy in China from 1000-1500.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Liu, William Guanglin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Dynasties, Events, and Equivalents
Introduction

Part I. The Market Economy in Late Imperial China

1. Issues and Approaches

2. The Nature of Song and Ming Economic Data

Part II. The Song Era

3. How Large Was the Money Economy?

4. Trade and Water Transport in the Eleventh Century

Part III. The Ming Era

5. China after 1200: Crisis and Disintegration

6. Prices, Real Wages, and National Incomes

Part IV. Agriculture

7. Agricultural Development of the Lower Yangtze

8. Changes in Agricultural Productivity, 1000–1600

Conclusion

A General Guide to Chinese Economic Data Sources in the Song and Ming Eras

Appendices

Appendix A. Chinese Population Data
Appendix B. Long-Term Changes in Prices and the Money Stock
Appendix C. Waterway Networks in the Eleventh Century
Appendix D. Chinese Acreage, 900–1600
Appendix E. Long-Term Changes in Real Wages
Appendix F. Estimates of National Incomes
Appendix G. Major Commodities in the Domestic Market
Appendix H. Military Farms, Involuntary migrations, and Extensive Agriculture

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

William Guanglin Liu is Associate Professor of History at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.