| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 523 pages) : illustrations, map. |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Harvard East Asian monographs ; 273
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Harvard East Asian monographs ; 273.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Private -sector stockpiling: state versus hoarder -- Legal ambiguity, coercive practice -- The subtler ways of handling hoarders -- Interventionism questioned -- Public-sector stockpiling: the state as hoarder? -- The issues in the ever-normal granaries debate -- A sage and his advisors: 1738-43 -- Overt and covert: 1744-47 -- The grand discussion: 1748-49 -- The slashing of the targets -- Of loose ends and parallel developments. |
| Summary |
What did it mean to run a large, commercialized agrarian polity according to the best Confucian principles? The author investigates the scope and limits of belief in market forces among those critical of government intervention, establishing that economic arguments for state withdrawal from the grain trade were available by 1750. |
| Access |
Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
| Processing Action |
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
China -- Economic policy -- 1644-1912.
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China. |
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Economic policy. |
| Chronological Term |
1644-1912 |
| Subject |
China -- Politics and government -- 1644-1912.
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Politics and government. |
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China -- History -- Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Economic Policy. |
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Qing Dynasty (China) |
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China -- Politik -- Geschichte 18. Jh. |
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Getreidehandel -- China -- Geschichte 18. Jh. |
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Wirtschaftspolitik -- China -- Geschichte 18. Jh. |
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China. |
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Vorratswirtschaft. |
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Getreidepolitik. |
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Staatliche Einflussnahme. |
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Konfuzianismus. |
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Wirtschaftsgeschichte. |
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Wirtschaftspolitik. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Dunstan, Helen. State or merchant?. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center, 2006 (DLC) 2006000349 (OCoLC)62872804 |
| ISBN |
9781684174416 (electronic book) |
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1684174414 (electronic book) |
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0674022629 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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9780674022621 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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