Studies in Chinese Price History

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.

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Studies in Chinese Price History

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.

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Studies in Chinese Price History

Studies in Chinese Price History

by Endymion Porter Wilkinson
Studies in Chinese Price History

Studies in Chinese Price History

by Endymion Porter Wilkinson

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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.


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ISBN-13: 9780429858253
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 11/01/2018
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Business and Economics in Asia , #31
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 298
File size: 28 MB
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Endymion Porter Wilkinson

Table of Contents

1. General Introduction 2. Money 3. Exchange rates in Shensi, 1900-1910 4. Grain Price Reporting and Grain Price Quotations During the Ch’ing 5. Shensi Grain Markets, 1900-1910 6. References Cited

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