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Author Perkins, Dwight H

Title Agricultural Development in China, 1368-1968
Published Somerset : Taylor and Francis, 2013

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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction to Transaction Edition; POST-1969 MAJOR WORKS ON CHINA'S AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIC HISTORY; CHALLENGES TO THE DATA AND ASSUMPTIONS; STUDIES OF NON-GRAIN CROPS; COMMERCE, URBANIZATION, AND THE GRAIN TRADE; CHINA'S PLACE IN WORLD ECONOMIC HISTORY; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Foreword; Preface; Tables; Maps & Charts; Abbreviations and Equivalents; CHAPTER I Introduction; SOURCES AND DATA PROBLEMS; THE ORGANIZATION OF THE BOOK; CHAPTER II Six Centuries of Rising Grain Production
THE PACE OF CHANGE (LATE FOURTEENTH-LATE EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES)A DECLINING GROWTH RATE, 1800-1900; AGRICULTURAL GROWTH IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY; CHINESE AGRICULTURE IN THE MID-TWENTIETH CENTURY; CHAPTER III Improved Seeds, Changing Crop Patterns, and New Crops; IMPROVED SEEDS; CHINA'S CROPPING PATTERN; NEW CROPS; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER IV Farm Implements, Water Control, and Fertilizer; FARM IMPLEMENTS, DRAFT ANIMALS, AND HUMAN LABOR; WATER CONTROL; TRADITIONAL AND CHEMICAL FERTILIZERS; CONCLUSION; Mathematical Supplement to Chapters III and IV
CHAPTER V The Distribution of Land and the Effects of TenancyLAND TENANCY BEFORE 1400; LAND TENANCY: ITS CAUSES AND EXTENT; LAND TENANCY, RISING OR FALLING; TENANCY AND FARM PRODUCTIVITY; INEQUALITIES IN THE DISTRIBUTION OF FACTORS PER FARM; LAND REFORM, COOPERATIVES, AND COMMUNES; CHAPTER VI Rural Marketing and Its Impact on Farm Output; TRADE WITHIN THE MARKET TOWN; THE SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF LONG-DISTANCE TRADE (BEFORE 1910); INTERPROVINCE TRADE (1910-1960'S); FARM EXPORTS (1870-1960'S); CONCLUSION; CHAPTER VII Urbanization, Famine, and the Market for Grain
URBANIZATION AND THE GRAIN TRADEGRAIN MARKETING IN THE EIGHTEENTH AND NINETEENTH CENTURIES; GRAIN TRIBUTE TO THE NORTH (BEFORE 1900); CHANGES IN THE PATTERN (1890-1936); URBANIZATION AND INDUSTRIALIZATION (POST-1949); FAMINE RELIEF AND FARM PRODUCTIVITY; CONCLUSION; CHAPTER VIII Centralized Government and the Traditional Economy; AGRICULTURE'S INDEPENDENCE OF GOVERNMENT AID; THE ECONOMIC BASIS FOR REGIONALISM; CHAPTER IX Conclusion; THE INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK; POPULATION GROWTH, MIGRATION, AND THE DEMAND FOR FOOD; RISING YIELDS WITHIN A STAGNANT TECHNOLOGY
POST-1949 IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVEAPPENDIXES; A. Chinese Population Data; POPULATION IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY; THE 1953 CENSUS; CH'ING POPULATION STATISTICS (1644-1911); POPULATION DATA (1851-1953); The Taiping Provinces; kansu-Shensi-Shansi (NW and N); The North and Northeast; Szechwan-Kwangtung- Fukien; CONCLUSION; B. Cultivated Acreage Data; ESTIMATING LAND AREA; THE CHINESE LAND MEASURE (The Mou); MING ACREAGE DATA; CONSISTENCY OF MING AND PRE-MING DATA; CH'ING ACREAGE DATA; ACREAGE ESTIMATES (NINETEETH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES); C. Crop Acreage Data (1914-1957)
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