Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume 1, to 1800

A comprehensive survey of Chinese economic history from the pre-imperial era to 1800 from an international team of leading experts.

List of contents

Introduction to Volume I Debin Ma and Richard von Glahn; Part I. Before 1000: 1. The economy of late pre-imperial China: archaeological perspectives Lothar von Falkenhausen; 2. Agriculture and its environmental impact Motoko Hara; 3. State and economy: production, extraction, and distribution Richard von Glahn; 4. Markets, money, and merchants Y¿hei Kakinuma; 5. Economic philosophy and political economy Richard von Glahn; 6. Silk Road trade and foreign economic influences Xinru Liu; Interlude. The Tang-Song transition in Chinese economic history Richard von Glahn; Part II. 1000 to 1800: 7. Ecological change and resource constraints David A. Bello; 8. Population change Shuji Cao; 9. Public finance Christian Lamouroux and Richard von Glahn; 10. Political economy Helen Dunstan; 11. Law and the market economy Billy K. L. So and Sufumi So; 12. Property rights and factor markets Mio Kishimoto; 13. The rural economy Kenneth Pomeranz; 14. Cities and the urban economy Harriet Zurndorfer; 15. The monetary system Akinobu Kuroda; 16. Merchants and commercial networks Joseph P. McDermott; 17. Foreign trade Angela Schottenhammer; 18. Production, consumption, and living standards Zhiwu Chen and Kaixiang Peng.

About the author

Debin Ma is Professor of Economics at Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan.Richard von Glahn is Distinguished Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Summary

The first comprehensive synthesis of Chinese economic history, past and present, in English. Volume I, which covers the period from 1000 BCE to 1800 CE in eighteen thematically organized chapters, introduces the main institutions, ideas, technologies, and social and political forces that shaped the world's largest economy in the premodern era.

Product details

• Authors: Debin (Hitotsubashi University Ma
• Assisted by: Richard von Glahn (Editor), Debin Ma (Editor), Debin (Hitotsubashi University Ma (Editor), Ma Debin (Editor), Richard von Glahn (Editor), Richard (University of California von Glahn (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2022
• EAN: 9781108425575
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42557-5
• No. of pages: 732
• Series: The Cambridge Economic History of China
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; China, HISTORY / Asia / General, Economic history, CE period up to c 1500, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Asian History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500