Economy of Lower Yangzi Delta in Late Imperial China

Billy K. L. So is Chair Professor of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• 1. Economic Values and Social Space in Historical Lower Yangzi Delta Economy: An Introductory Essay Part I: Money, Productivity, and Price: A Matter of Economic Values 2. Cycles of Silver in Chinese Monetary History 3. Cotton Textile Production in Jiangnan during the Ming-Qing Era and the Matter of Market-driven Growth 4. Agricultural Productivity in Early Modern Jiangnan 5. Copper, Silver, and Tea: The Question of Eighteenth-Century Inflation in the Lower Yangzi Delta 6. An Early Modern Economy in China: A Study of the GDP of Huating-Lou Area, 1823-29 Part II: Urbanization, Institutions, and Networks: A Matter of Social Space 7. On the Emergence and Intensification of the Pattern of Rural-Urban Continuum in Late Imperial Jiangnan Society 8. Institutions in Market Economies of Premodern Maritime China 9. The Rise of Huizhou Merchants: Kinship and Commerce in Ming China 10. Conditions and Risks of Water Transport in the Late Ming Songjiang Region as Seen in the Cases Collected in MaoYilu’s Yunjian yanlüe 11. Brokers and ‘Guild’ Organizations (huiguan) in China’s Maritime Trade with Japan in High Qing