Contract and Property in Early Modern China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Contract and Property in Early Modern China write by Madeleine Zelin. This book was released on 2004-02-18. Contract and Property in Early Modern China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Providing a new perspective on economic and legal institutions, particularly on contract and property, in Qing and Republican history, this volume provides case studies to explicate how these institutions worked, while situating them firmly in their broader social context.
Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy
Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy write by Masayuki Tanimoto. This book was released on 2018-12-04. Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able to augment people’s welfare. The role of specific nonmarket practices for promoting the economic development and welfare has been a distinct concern, typically involving discussion of the state’s economic policies. How have societies tackled those issues that the market did not? To what extent did those solutions reflect the structure of an economy? Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy explores these questions by investigating efforts made for the provision of "public goods" in early modern economies from the perspective of Japanese socioeconomic history during Tokugawa era (1603–1868), and by comparing those cases with others from Europe and China’s economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry—early modern era welfare policies for the poor, infrastructure, and forest management—to provide both a unique perspective on Japanese public finance at local levels and a vantage point outside of Europe to encourage a more global view of early modern political economies that shaped subsequent modern transformations.
Trading Networks in Early Modern East Asia
Trading Networks in Early Modern East Asia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trading Networks in Early Modern East Asia write by Angela Schottenhammer. This book was released on 2010. Trading Networks in Early Modern East Asia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The present volume, composed of six contributions by different scholars, seeks to show the intensity of exchange relations and trading networks in the early modern to late imperial "East Asian 'Mediterranean'", arguing that these exchange relations and trading networks already had their roots and origins in the tenth to thirteenth centuries at the latest. In this context, the first two contributions discuss local society and socio-economic changes within local Chinese society during the Song to Ming periods - while the other four contributions concentrate on aspects of commercial exchange and administration during the Qing period. Two contributions in particular analyze the indirect and direct importance respectively of religion for social life and commercial activities as a basic precondition for success in non-religious affairs. One chapter investigates Sino-Ryukyuan trade relations during the Kangxi reign (1662-1722), another one Sino-Taiwanese trade relations in late imperial China, while one chapter is in particular dedicated to an analysis of the characteristics and developments within the maritime trade administration of the Manchu Qing (1644-1911) government, with emphasis on hitherto rather neglected aspects, for example institutional-administrative details, including questions such as if Manchus or Han Chinese were responsible for the administration of trade.
The Merchants of Zigong
The Merchants of Zigong - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Merchants of Zigong write by Madeleine Zelin. This book was released on 2005. The Merchants of Zigong available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From its dramatic expansion in the early nineteenth century to its decline in the late 1930s, salt production in Zigong was one of the largest and only indigenous large-scale industries in China. Madeleine Zelin's history details the novel ways in which Zigong merchants mobilized capital through financial-industrial networks and spurred growth by developing new technologies, capturing markets, and building integrated business organizations. She provides new insight into the forces and institutions that shaped Chinese economic and social development (independent of Western or Japanese influence) and challenges long-held beliefs that social structure, state extraction, the absence of modern banking, and cultural bias against business precluded industrial development in China.
The Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China
The Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China write by Billy Kee Long So. This book was released on 2013. The Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores aspects of this vibrant market economy in late imperial China, and by presenting a reconstructed narrative of economic development in the early modern Jiangnan, provides new perspectives on established theories of Chinese economic development. Further, by examining economic values alongside social structures, this book produces a historically comprehensive account of the contemporary Chinese economy which engenders a deeper and broader understanding of China's current economic success.
