Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Dynasties, Events, and Equivalents Introduction Part I. The Market Economy in Late Imperial China 1. Issues and Approaches 2. The Nature of Song and Ming Economic Data Part II. The Song Era 3. How Large Was the Money Economy? 4. Trade and Water Transport in the Eleventh Century Part III. The Ming Era 5. China after 1200: Crisis and Disintegration 6. Prices, Real Wages, and National Incomes Part IV. Agriculture 7. Agricultural Development of the Lower Yangtze 8. Changes in Agricultural Productivity, 1000-1600 Conclusion A General Guide to Chinese Economic Data Sources in the Song and Ming Eras Appendices Appendix A. Chinese Population Data Appendix B. Long-Term Changes in Prices and the Money Stock Appendix C. Waterway Networks in the Eleventh Century Appendix D. Chinese Acreage, 900-1600 Appendix E. Long-Term Changes in Real Wages Appendix F. Estimates of National Incomes Appendix G. Major Commodities in the Domestic Market Appendix H. Military Farms, Involuntary migrations, and Extensive Agriculture Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

William Guanglin Liu is Associate Professor of History at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

Reviews

"…a valuable book on a big, important, topic: the general trajectory of the Chinese economy from roughly 1000–1650 … The research is excellent, and the author comes up with some original and inventive ways to use his data." — EH.Net