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Subject(s)

• Economic history [Browse]
• China—Economic conditions—To 1644 [Browse]
• China—Economic conditions—1644-1912 [Browse]
• China—History—Shang dynasty, 1766-1122 B.C. [Browse]
• China—History—Qing dynasty, 1644-1912 [Browse]

Series

• Routledge explorations in economic history ; 13. [More in this series]
• Routledge explorations in economic history ; 13 [More in this series]

Summary note

Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520BC - 1911AD), Gang Deng examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese economy from medieval sophistication to modern underdevelopment. These factors include: * resource endowments * socio-economic structure * property rights * state and bureaucracy * ideology and values * geo-political environment * internal rebellions * external invasions and conquestsThe Premodern Chinese Economy is a comprehensive analysis of China's economic history and provides essential background to the

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Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. 378-408) and index.

Language note

English

Contents

• Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: problems and a new insight; Main factors in the Chinese socio-economic system; Trinary structure: origin, tension and equilibrium; Disequilibrium, cataclysm and recovery; External pressure and shock: the reinforcement of the pattern; Conclusion: deadlock in economic development; Appendices; The Ming-Qing price revolution and population growth; Dissemination of agricultural technology in China; Peasant behavioural patterns; China's pseudo-feudalism
• Choices for a dualistic peasant household economyEstimation of tax rates; Land reforms and anti-concentration of landholding; Population growth and arable land; Data concerning mass rebellions; Cotton and its diffusion in China; Bibliography; Index

ISBN

• 1-134-71655-9
• 1-134-71656-7
• 1-280-33094-5
• 0-203-03103-2
• 0-203-17125-X

OCLC

• 560057157
• 1000426114

Doi

• 10.4324/9780203031032

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