Sugar and Society in China : Peasants, Technology, and the World Market / Sucheta Mazumdar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazumdar, Sucheta, 1948- author.

Series:

Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 45.

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN ; 9789004407077.

Harvard University Studies in East Asian Law ; 45

Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, ISBN: 9789004407077

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sugar trade--China--History.

Sugar trade.

History.

China--Economic conditions.

China.

Economic conditions.

China--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Peasants, Technology, and the World Market

Place of Publication:

Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 1998.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In this wide-ranging study, Sucheta Mazumdar offers a new answer to the fundamental question of why China, universally acknowledged as one of the most developed economies in the world through the mid-eighteenth century, paused in this development process in the nineteenth. Focusing on cane-sugar production, domestic and international trade, technology, and the history of consumption for over a thousand years as a means of framing the larger questions, the author shows that the economy of late imperial China was not stagnant, nor was the state suppressing trade; indeed, China was integrated into the world market well before the Opium War. But clearly the trajectory of development did not transform the social organization of production or set in motion sustained economic growth.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [421]-623) and index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Sugar and Society in China : Peasants, Technology, and the World Market,

ISBN:

9781684170258

9780674854086

OCLC:

652424399

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9781684170258 DOI

Access Restriction:

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