Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. LIST OF TABLES, FIGURES, AND MAPS ix
4. WEIGHTS AND MEASURES xiii
5. PREFACE xv
6. CONTRIBUTORS xvii
7. INTRODUCTION: CHINESE HISTORY IN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE 1
8. PART I. PRICE BEHAVIOR
9. 1. Secular Trends of Rice Prices in the Yangzi Delta, 1638-1935 35
10. 2. Grain Prices in Zhili Province, l 736-1911: A Preliminary Study 69
11. 3. The Qing State and the Gansu Grain Market, 1739-1864 100
12. 4. Grain Markets and Food Supplies in Eighteenth-Century Hunan 126
13. 5. Infanticide and Family Planning in Late Imperial China: The Price and Population History of Rural Liaoning, l 774-1873 145
14. PART 2. MARKET RESPONSE
15. 6. Land Concentration and Income Distribution in Republican China 179
16. 7. Farming, Sericulture, and Peasant Rationality in Wuxi County in the Early Twentieth Century 207
17. 8. Women's Work in the Ningbo Area, 1900-1936 243
18. 9. Native-Place Hierarchy and Labor Market Segmentation: The Case of Subei People in Shanghai 271
19. 10. Local Interest Story: Political Power and Regional Differences in the Shandong Capital Market, 1900-1937 295
20. GLOSSARY 319
21. BIBLIOGRAPHY 325
22. INDEX 351