Introduction / W.E. Willmott -- The organizational capabilities of the Ch'ing state in the field of commerce : the Liang-huai salt monopoly, 1740-1840 / Thomas A. Metzger -- Finance in Ningpo : the "Ch'ien Chuang," 1750-1880 / Susan Mann Jones -- Sericulture and silk textile production in Ch'ing China / E-tu Zen Sun -- Cotton culture and manufacture in early Ch'ing China / Craig Dietrich -- The high-level equilibrium trap : the causes of the decline of invention in the traditional Chinese textile industries / Mark Elvin -- The commercialization of agriculture in modern China / Ramon H. Myers -- The sociology of irrigation : two Taiwanese villages / Burton Pasternak -- Marketing on the Changhua plain, Taiwan / Lawrence W. Crissman -- The inculcation of economic values in Taipei business families / Stephen M. Olsen -- Doing business in Lukang / Donald R. de Glopper -- Marketing and credit in a Hong Kong wholesale market / Robert H. Silin -- A small factory in Hong Kong : some aspects of its internal organization / Barbara E. Ward -- Economic management of a production brigade in post-leap China / John C. Pelzel.

"Articles selected from the Harvard journal of Asiatic studies, 1946-1957."
Includes bibliographical references.

Towards a study of dynastic configurations in Chinese history -- Schedules of work and rest in Imperial China -- Hostages in Chinese history -- Economic justification for spending: an uncommon idea in traditional China -- Numbers and units in Chinese economic history -- Notes on Dr. Swann's Food and money in ancient China -- Notes on the economic history of the Chin dynasty -- Buddhist monasteries and four money-raising institutions in Chinese history -- The form of the paper note Hui-tzu of the Southern Sung dynasty.

Contents: V. 1. Shi qian qi zhi Xia-Yin-Shang yu Xi Zhou 史前期至夏殷商與西周 -- v. 2. Chunqiu-Zhanguo-Qin-Han-Xin Mang 春秋戰國秦漢新莽 -- v. 3. Hanmo-Wei-Jin-Nan Bei Chao-Sui-Tang-Wudai-Liang-Song-Liao-Jin-Yuan 漢末魏晉南北朝隋唐五代兩宋遼金元 -- v. 4. Mingdai Qingdai 明代清代.

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Contents 第1篇. Zhongguo wenhuashi xulun 中國文化史序論 -- 第2篇. Zhongguo zhi minzu yu shehui 中國之民族與社會, 上下 -- 第3篇. Zhongguo zhi zhengzhi yu jingji 中國之政治與經濟, 上下 -- 第4篇. Zhongguo zhi dianzhang zhidu 中國之典章制度, 上中下 -- 第5篇. Zhongguo zhi xueshu sixiang 中國之學術思想, 上下.

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