Chinese history in economic perspective

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Chinese history in economic perspective

edited by Thomas G. Rawski and Lillian M. Li

(Studies on China, 13)

University of California Press, c1992

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Bliography: p. 325-350

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The essays assembled here represent a turning point in the study of Chinese economic history. Previous work has emphasized the institutional and social bases of economic change. These studies break new ground, bringing Western economic theory to the study of China's economy since the seventeenth century.

Table of Contents

  • Secular trends of rice prices in the Yangzi delta, 1638-1935
  • grain prices in Zhili Province, 1736-1911
  • the Qing state and the Gansu grain market, 1739-1864
  • grain markets and food supplies in eighteenth-century Hunan
  • infanticide and family planning in later Imperial China
  • land concentration and income distribution in Republican China
  • farming, sericulture and peasant rationality in Wuxi county in the early twentieth century
  • women's work in the Ningbo area, 1900-1936
  • native-place hierarchy and labor market segmentation
  • local interest story.

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