State or Merchant?: Political Economy and Political Process in 1740s China

by Helen Dunstan

What did it mean to run a large, commercialized agrarian polity according to the best Confucian principles?

This book is intended as a contribution to both intellectual and political history. It is partly a study of how Confucian-trained officials thought about the grain trade and the state's role in it, particularly the "ever-normal granaries," the stockpiles of grain maintained by every county government as protection against shortages...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674022629
• ISBN13: 9780674022621
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 523 Pages
• Weight: 1.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.1"