附註:Based on papers and discussion from the Workshop and Conference on Economic Methods for Chinese Historical Research held in Honolulu, Hawaii in Jan. 1987 and Oracle, Arizona in Jan. 1988.
Introduction: Chinese history in economic perspective / Thomas G. Rawski and Lillian M. Li -- Secular trends of rice prices in the Yangzi Delta, 1638-1935 / Yeh-chien Wang -- Grain prices in Zhili Province, 1736-1911: A preliminary study / Lillian M. Li -- The Qing state and the Gansu grain market, 1739-1864 / Peter C. Perdue -- Grain markets and food supplies in eighteenth-century Hunan / R. Bin Wong and Peter C. Perdue -- Infanticide and family planning in late imperial China: The price and population history of rural Liaoning, 1774-1873 / James Lee, Cameron Campbell, and Guofu Tan -- Land concentration and income distribution in Republican China / Loren Brandt and Barbara Sands -- Farming, sericulture, and peasant rationality in Wuxi county in the early twentieth century / Lynda S. Bell -- Women's work in the Ningbo area, 1900-1936 / Susan Mann -- Native-place hierarchy and labor market segmentation: The case of Subei people in Shanghai / Emily Honig -- Local interest story: Political power and regional differences in the Shandong capital market, 1900-1937 / Kenneth Pomeranz.
Includes bibliographical references and index.