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