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S04/0400 --- S10/0210 --- S11/0400 --- #SML: Joseph Spae --- China: History--General works: China --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: before 1840 --- China: Social sciences--History, surveys, general: China

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Conflicting Counsels to Confuse the Age translates and analyzes thirty-eight memorials to the throne and other Qing documents dealing with important issues of Chinese political economy, providing thoughtful and provocative commentary. Subjects covered by the texts include water control, mining, grain trade, pawnshops, brewing, and commercial shipping. The documents also contain detailed discussions of how the state should control wealth, self-interest, profit, hoarding, and the market.In translating these primary sources, Helen Dunstan invites fellow specialists in Chinese studies, including Qing historians, to watch Qing officials and others thinking through problems of political economy and developing arguments to persuade colleagues or superiors. By emphasizing their rhetorical nature and genre conventions, Dunstan offers a reminder that it is improper to use the "information" in such texts without attention to the author's purpose, and without grasping the rhetorical structure of the text as a whole. As a model for close reading, Conflicting Counsels aims to induce greater sensitivity to the nature of Qing records.The second purpose of Conflicting Counsels is to help dispel the notion that economic liberalism is necessarily a Western, "modern" phenomenon. Many of the texts translated record areas of tension and controversy in eighteenth-century approaches to a central project of Confucian paternalist administration, "nourishing the people" (yangmin). Although Dunstan attempts to present both sides fairly, some materials included present the opinion that, in certain vital matters, it was better for the state to stand aside, and leave society's own economic institutions, trade in particular, to handle things. While not a majority, the texts that build some kind of market mechanism argument should be of greatest interest to Qing historians.

China --- History --- Politics and government --- Economic policy --- S04/0690 --- S06/0205 --- S10/0210 --- China: History--Qing: 1644 - 1840 --- China: Politics and government--Government and political institutions: Qing --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: before 1840 --- Social Science / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General --- History / Asia / China --- Social Science

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A selection of essays from Takeshi Hamashita's oeuvre on Asian trade is here presented to introduce the work of this important historian on China and East Asia's incorporation to the world economy to the English-speaking reader.

China --- East Asia --- Commerce --- History --- Economic conditions --- S10/0210 --- S10/0400 --- S10/0610 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: before 1840 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Public finance and taxation: general and before 1911 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Foreign trade and economic relations: before 1842 --- Asia, East --- Asia, Eastern --- East (Far East) --- Eastern Asia --- Far East --- Orient --- History. --- Economic conditions. --- China - Commerce - History --- China - Economic conditions --- East Asia - Commerce - History --- East Asia - Economic conditions

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This book argues that the Mongol invasion of China in the thirteenth century precipitated a lasting transformation of marriage and property laws that deprived women of their property rights and reduced their legal and economic autonomy. It describes how indigenous social change combined with foreign invasion and cultural confrontation to bring laws more into line with the goals of the radical Confucian philosophers, who wished to curtail women's financial and personal autonomy. This book provides a reevaluation of the Mongol invasion and its influence on Chinese law and society, and presents a new look at the changing position of women in premodern China.

Women --- Feminism --- Social conditions. --- China --- Social conditions --- S10/0210 --- S11/0710 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: before 1840 --- China: Social sciences--Women: general and before 1949 --- Femmes --- Conditions sociales --- Chine --- History of Asia --- Sung [Dynasty] --- anno 900-999 --- anno 1000-1099 --- anno 1100-1199 --- anno 1200-1299 --- anno 1300-1399 --- Arts and Humanities --- History --- Women - Social conditions --- China - Social conditions - 960-1644

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The Qing state, driven by Confucian precepts of good government and urgent practical needs, committed vast resources to its granaries. Nourish the People traces the basic practices of this system, analyzes the organizational bases of its successes and failures, and examines variant practices in different regions. The volume concludes with an assessment of the granary system's social and economic impact and historical comparison with the food supply policies of other states.

Grain trade --- Granaries --- Food supply --- Agriculture and state --- Céréales --- Greniers (Entrepôts) --- Aliments --- Politique agricole --- Government policy --- History. --- Commerce --- Politique gouvernementale --- Histoire --- Approvisionnement --- S20/0310 --- S10/0210 --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Rice and wheat: general and before 1949 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--General works and economic history: before 1840 --- Céréales --- Greniers (Entrepôts) --- Grain bins --- Graineries --- Grain --- Storage facilities --- Produce trade --- Food control --- Agriculture --- Food security --- Single cell proteins --- Agrarian question --- Agricultural policy --- State and agriculture --- Economic policy --- Land reform --- History --- Government policy&delete& --- Storage --- History of Asia --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1700-1799 --- anno 1800-1899 --- China