The Chinese market economy 1000-1500 / William Guanglin Liu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liu, William Guanglin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

China--Economic conditions--To 1644.

China.

China--Economic policy--To 1644.

China--Commerce--History--To 1500.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (394 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany, New York : SUNY Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Maps; Figures; Tables; Acknowledgments; Dynasties, Events, and Equivalents; I. Dynasties and Events; II. Weights and Capacity; III. Units of Currencies; Introduction; Structure of the Book; Part I. The Market Economy in Late Imperial China; Chapter 1. Issues and Approaches; Depicting Market Expansion in Preindustrial China; Measuring Agricultural Productivity; Chapter 2. The Nature of Song and Ming Economic Data; The Ho Puzzle and the Reliability of Chinese Population Data; The Poll Tax Era: 220 BC to 755 AD

The Indirect Taxation Era: The Song Fiscal State and the Birth of Market-Based DataThe Land Taxes Era: An Inefficient Mode of Taxation; The Heyday of a Command Economy Era and the Early Ming Data; The Debate over Song Population Data; Conclusion; Part II. The Song Era; Chapter 3. How Large Was the Money Economy?; Divergence in the Song and Ming Economies: Population and Price; The Rise of a Command Economy in the Early Ming; Reconstruction of Domestic Markets in 1077 AD and 1381 AD; Long-Term Changes in the Money Supply; A Tentative Conclusion

Chapter 4. Trade and Water Transport in the Eleventh CenturyThe Structure of Song Inland Water Transport; The Decline of Transportation Costs; Kaifeng in the Eleventh-Century National Market; Conclusion; Part III. The Ming Era; Chapter 5. China after 1200: Crisis and Disintegration; A Sharp Decline in Population and Urban Consumption; Disappearance of Monetized Taxation during the Late Fourteenth Century; Shrinking in Water Transports; Limit of Sixteenth-Century Trade; Conclusion; Chapter 6. Prices, Real Wages, and National Incomes; Real Wages in the Song and Ming Eras

Inequality in the Market EconomyThe Share of State Revenue in National Income; Conclusion; Part IV. Agriculture; Chapter 7. Agricultural Development of the Lower Yangtze; Agricultural Development in the Lower Yangtze; Variances in Estimation of Farm Yield per Acre in Jiangnan; Debate on the Living Conditions in the Lower Yangtze; Conclusion; Chapter 8. Changes in Agricultural Productivity, 1000-1600; Rising Grain Production in per Capita and a Boom in Total Households from 980 to 1195; The Path toward Intensive Farming; Agricultural Decline in North China; Conclusion; Conclusion

Studying Chinese Historical National IncomesMarket Development in the Eleventh Century; The Retreat to a Command Economy; China in the Sixteenth Century; A General Guide to Chinese Economic Data Sources in the Song and Ming Eras; Organization of the Appendices; Major Data Sources; 1077 Data and Their Original Source; Approaches to Test the Quality of Chinese Historical Economic Data; Appendices; Appendix A. Chinese Population Data; 1.; 2.; Appendix B. Long-Term Changes in Prices and the Money Stock; Peng's Index of Rice Prices

Estimates of the Amount of Song Coins and the Ming Money Supply before 1550

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781438455693

1438455690

OCLC:

920467714