An economic history of China from antiquity to the nineteenth century
China's extraordinary rise as an economic powerhouse in the past two decades poses a challenge to many long-held assumptions about the relationship between political institutions and economic development. Economic prosperity also was vitally important to the longevity of the Chinese Empire thro...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2015
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The bronze age economy (1045 to 707 b.c.e.)
- From city-state to autocratic monarchy (707 to 250 B.C.E.)
- Economic foundations of the universal empire (250 to 81 B.C.E.)
- Magnate society and the estate economy (81 B.C.E. to 485 C.E.)
- The Chinese-nomad synthesis and the reunification of the empire (485 to 755)
- Economic transformation in the Tang-Song transition (755 to 1127)
- The heyday of the Jiangnan economy (1127 to 1550)
- The maturation of the market economy (1550 to 1800)
- Domestic crises and global challenges : restructuring the imperial economy (1800 to 1900)
- Bibliography
- Index