Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Chinese Traditions of Grain Storage -- Part I: Development and Decline -- Introduction -- 2. Foundations of Success, 1650-1735 -- 3. The Grand Structure, 1736-1780 -- 4. Decline and Its Opposition, 1781-1850 -- Conclusion -- Part II: Structural Problems -- Introduction -- 5. Grain Preservation -- 6. Management -- 7. The Control Structure -- 8. Statistical Difficulties and Accounting Methods -- Part III: Spatial Patterns -- Introduction
9. National Patterns of Granary Activity -- 10. North China: Shandong during the Qianlong Period -- 11. The Middle Yangzi: Hunan -- 12. The Southwest: Yunnan and Guizhou -- Conclusion -- Part IV: A Comparative Assessment -- 13. Qing Granaries and Late Imperial History -- 14. Qing Granaries and World History -- Appendix: Tables of Civilian Granary Holdings in Qing China, 1741-1856 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
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