The economic history of China: from antiquity to the nineteenth century

Acknowledgements

Introduction

The bronze age economy (1045 to 707 b.c.e.)

From city-state to autocratic monarchy (707 to 250 B.C.E.)

Economic foundations of the universal empire (250 to 81 B.C.E.)

Magnate society and the estate economy (81 B.C.E. to 485 C.E.)

The Chinese-nomad synthesis and the reunification of the empire (485 to 755)

Economic transformation in the Tang-Song transition (755 to 1127)

The heyday of the Jiangnan economy (1127 to 1550)

The maturation of the market economy (1550 to 1800)

Domestic crises and global challenges : restructuring the imperial economy (1800 to 1900)

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Index.