The economy of lower Yangzi delta in late imperial China : connecting money, markets, and institutions / edited by Billy K.L. So.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

So, Billy K. L. (Billy Kee Long), 1952-

Series:

Academia Sinica on East Asia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yangtze River Delta (China)--Economic conditions.

Yangtze River Delta (China).

China--Economic conditions--1644-1912.

China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (579 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, N.Y. : Routledge, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Historically, the Lower Yangzi Delta (or Jiangnan), has played a key role in China's economic development. Indeed, as the prime example of a traditional Chinese market economy, the region serves as the core case study when making comparisons between the Chinese and Western economies in the early modern period. This book explores aspects of this vibrant market economy in late imperial China, and by presenting a reconstructed narrative of economic development in the early modern Jiangnan, provides new perspectives on established theories of Chinese economic development. Furthe

Contents:

Economic values and social space in historical lower Yangzi delta economy : an introductory essay / by Billy K. L. So

Money, productivity, and price : a matter of economic values

Cycles of silver in Chinese monetary history / by Richard von Glahn

Cotton textile production in Jiangnan during the Ming-Qing era and the matter of market-driven growth / by Harriet Zurndorfer

Agricultural productivity in early modern Jiangnan / by Guanglin Liu

Copper, silver, and tea : the question of eighteenth-century inflation in the lower Yangzi delta / by Sui-wai Cheung

An early modern economy in China : a study of the gdp of Huating-Lou area, 1823-29 / by Bozhong Li

Urbanization, institutions, and networks: a matter of social space

On the emergence and intensification of the pattern of rural-urban continuum in late imperial Jiangnan society / by Shiba Yoshinobu

Institutions in market economies of premodern maritime China / by Billy K. L. So

The rise of Huizhou merchants : kinship and commerce in Ming China / by Joseph P. McDermott

Conditions and risks of water transport in the late Ming Songjiang region as seen in the cases collected in Maoyilu's Yunjian Yanlüe / by Ka-chai Tam

Brokers and "guild" organizations (huiguan) in China's maritime trade with Japan in high Qing / by Angela Schottenhammer.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-136-23722-4

1-283-64246-8

0-203-10183-9

1-136-23723-2

9780203101834

OCLC:

815653936