| Description |
xiv, 309 p. : ill. |
| Series |
Academia Sinica on East Asia
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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 Yanlue / by Ka-chai Tam -- Brokers and "guild" organizations (huiguan) in China's maritime trade with Japan in high Qing / by Angela Schottenhammer. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. |
| Subject |
Yangtze River Delta (China) -- Economic conditions.
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China -- Economic conditions -- 1644-1912.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
So, Billy K. L. (Billy Kee Long), 1952-
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ProQuest (Firm)
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| ISBN |
9780415508964 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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9780203101834 (electronic bk.) |
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