1st Edition
The Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China Connecting Money, Markets, and Institutions
1. Economic Values and Social Space in Historical Lower Yangzi Delta Economy: An Introductory Essay Billy K. L. So Part I: Money, Productivity, and Price: A Matter of Economic Values 2. Cycles of Silver in Chinese Monetary History Richard von Glahn 3. Cotton Textile Production in Jiangnan during the Ming-Qing Era and the Matter of Market-driven Growth Harriet Zurndorfer 4. Agricultural Productivity in Early Modern Jiangnan Guanglin Liu 5. Copper, Silver, and Tea: The Question of Eighteenth-Century Inflation in the Lower Yangzi Delta Sui-wai Cheung 6. An Early Modern Economy in China: A Study of the GDP of Huating-Lou Area, 1823-29 Bozhong Li Part II: Urbanization, Institutions, and Networks: A Matter of Social Space 7. On the Emergence and Intensification of the Pattern of Rural-Urban Continuum in Late Imperial Jiangnan Society Shiba Yoshinobu 8. Institutions in Market Economies of Premodern Maritime China Billy K. L. So 9. The Rise of Huizhou Merchants: Kinship and Commerce in Ming China Joseph P. McDermott 10. Conditions and Risks of Water Transport in the Late Ming Songjiang Region as Seen in the Cases Collected in MaoYilu’s Yunjian yanlüe Ka-chai Tam 11. Brokers and ‘Guild’ Organizations (huiguan) in China’s Maritime Trade with Japan in High Qing Angela Schottenhammer
Biography
Billy K. L. So is Chair Professor of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
