Introduction: Chinese history in economic perspective / Thomas G. Rawski and Lillian M. Li -- Secular trends of rice prices in the Yangzi Delta, 1638-1935 / Yeh-chien Wang -- Grain prices in Zhili Province, 1736-1911: A preliminary study / Lillian M. Li -- The Qing state and the Gansu grain market, 1739-1864 / Peter C. Perdue -- Grain markets and food supplies in eighteenth-century Hunan / R. Bin Wong and Peter C. Perdue -- Infanticide and family planning in late imperial China: The price and population history of rural Liaoning, 1774-1873 / James Lee, Cameron Campbell, and Guofu Tan -- Land concentration and income distribution in Republican China / Loren Brandt and Barbara Sands -- Farming, sericulture, and peasant rationality in Wuxi county in the early twentieth century / Lynda S. Bell -- Women's work in the Ningbo area, 1900-1936 / Susan Mann -- Native-place hierarchy and labor market segmentation: The case of Subei people in Shanghai / Emily Honig -- Local interest story: Political power and regional differences in the Shandong capital market, 1900-1937 / Kenneth Pomeranz. |