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1 online resource (298 pages) |
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Routledge Library Editions: Business and Economics in Asia Ser. ; v. 31 |
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Routledge Library Editions: Business and Economics in Asia Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Tables; 2/1. Cash/silver exchange rates and rice prices in Shanghai district, Suchow prefecture, 1628-1690; 3/1. Months covered in the Shensi Reports, Chinese and western calendars; 3/2. Typical C/S rates in 90 district towns, Shensi, 1900-1910; 3/3. Monthly arithmetic means of C/S rates in 17 groups of towns, Shensi, 1900-10; 3/4. Coefficients of variation of C/S rates in 16 groups of towns, Shensi, 1900-10; 3/5. Differences between C/S rates in towns on major routes to Sian |
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5/1. Estimated crop acreage, yields and production in Shensi, 1900-19105/2. Percentage of districts in Shensi reporting different amounts harvested, 5-year intervals, 1821-1910; 5/3. Percentage of total districts (90) in shensi reporting crop disasters due to drought, flood, famine, war, hail, frosts, and locusts, 1846-1910; 5/4. System of weights (based on typical prices in Shensi, 1900-1910); 5/5. Total estimated agricultural production in Shensi in tons of wheat equivalent/person/year, c. 1900 |
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5/6. Total product from agriculture in Shensi, c. 1900, expressed in kg. wheat equivalent/person/year5/7. Total production of food and non-food crops in kg. grain equivalent per capita; 5/8. Estimates of urban population in Shensi, c. 1900; 5/9. Time taken from Sian, c. 1900; 5/10. Transport costs in Shensi, c. 1900 (in cash per ton km.); 5/11. Months covered by the Shensi Reports; 5/12. Typical prices of wheat per granary bushel in cash and in taels ranked in 90 district towns, Shensi, 1900-1910 |
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5/13. Typical prices of one granary bushel of wheat in cash and in taels. 90 district towns, Shensi, 1900-19105/14. Transport costs per granary bushel of wheat in taels over selected distances; 5/15. Typical prices of one granary bushel of rice in cash and in taels. 90 district towns, Shensi, 1900-1910; 5/16. Typical prices of one granary bushel of millet in cash and in taels. 90 district towns, Shensi, 1900-1910; 5/17. Typical prices of one granary bushel of field peas in cash and in taels. 90 district towns, Shensi, 1900-1910 |
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5/18. Differences in typical prices between towns on major routes leading to SianFigures and graphs; 2/1. C/S rates, 1800-1925; 3/1. Plot of C/S month effects vs. time; 4/0. Illustration of a financial secretary's handbook; 4/1. District town price report; 4/2. Prefectural summary of subordinate district town grain price reports; 5/1. Plot of month effects of wheat prices; Maps; 2/1. Cheng Kuang-tsu's observations, c. 1795; 3/1. Geographic zones in Shensi; 3/2. Typical C/S rates in central and southern Shensi, 1900-1910; 3/3. Typical C/S rates in northern Shensi |
| Summary |
This book, first published in 1980, uses a body of original documentary sources (some 5000 district grain price reports) to quantify, in the form of exchange and price zones, the relationships between the exchange markets and the grain markets of ninety district towns in Shensi, a province in China. Through this study there emerges a detailed picture of a near subsistence agricultural economy |
| Notes |
5/1. Crop areas and geographic zones in Shensi, 1900-1910 |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grain -- Prices -- China -- Shaanxi Sheng -- History
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Economic history.
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Grain -- Prices
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Economic history
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Grain -- Prices
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China -- Shaanxi Sheng
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780429858260 |
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0429858264 |
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9780429858253 |
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0429858256 |
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9780429858246 |
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0429858248 |
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9780429458613 |
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0429458614 |
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