Community, Trade, and Networks: Southern Fujian Province from the Third to the Thirteenth Century (Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions)
Cambridge University Press
Edition: Illustrated, 8/30/1991
EAN 9780521390293, ISBN10: 052139029X
Hardcover, 282 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
Community, Trade, and Networks traces the economic and demographic history of a corner of China's southeast coast from the third to the thirteenth century, investigating the relationship between changes in the agrarian and urban economies of the area and the expanding role of domestic and foreign trade. It provides a fresh perspective on the role of commercialized production and trade in a regional economy in the premodern era and demonstrates that trade was able to drive change in a premodern economy in a way that has not generally been recognized.
List of maps and tables
Acknowledgments
1. Problems and approaches
2. The late Tang
3. The interregnum
politics, structure, and administration
4. The interregnum
society and economics
5. The song
demography and networks
6. The song
trade and economy
7. Conclusions
Appendices
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index.