The Cambridge Economic History of China: Volume 1, To 1800

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 Yohei 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.