The Premodern Chinese Economy: Structural Equilibrium and Capitalist Sterility (Routledge Explorations in Economic History, 13)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures and tables......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
List of abbreviations......Page 14
Introduction: problems and a new insight......Page 16
Main factors in the Chinese socio-economic system......Page 51
Trinary structure: origin, tension and equilibrium......Page 137
Disequilibrium, cataclysm and recovery......Page 227
External pressure and shock: the reinforcement of the pattern......Page 279
Conclusion: deadlock in economic development......Page 312
Appendices......Page 344
The Ming-Qing price revolution and population growth......Page 346
Dissemination of agricultural technology in China......Page 351
Peasant behavioural patterns......Page 356
China's pseudo-feudalism......Page 364
Choices for a dualistic peasant household economy......Page 366
Estimation of tax rates......Page 371
Land reforms and anti-concentration of landholding......Page 373
Population growth and arable land......Page 375
Data concerning mass rebellions......Page 378
Cotton and its diffusion in China......Page 392
Bibliography......Page 393
Index......Page 424