附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 378-408) and index.
Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures and tables; Preface; List of abbreviations; Introduction: problems and a new insight; Main factors in the Chinese socio-economic system; Trinary structure: origin, tension and equilibrium; Disequilibrium, cataclysm and recovery; External pressure and shock: the reinforcement of the pattern; Conclusion: deadlock in economic development; Appendices; The Ming-Qing price revolution and population growth; Dissemination of agricultural technology in China; Peasant behavioural patterns; China's pseudo-feudalism.
摘要:Covering the time span from the Shang to the Qing Periods (1520BC - 1911AD), this book examines important factors in the decline of the Chinese economy from medieval sophistication to modern underdevelopment.
