Contents
Part I.Journal articles and book chapters
Changes in Climate, Land, and Human Efforts: The Production of Wet-f.iled Rice in Jiangnan During the Ming and Qing Dynasties......3
Was There a ¡°Thirteenth-and-Fourteenth-Century Turning-Point¡±? Population, Land, Technology, and Farm Management...................44
Farm Labor Productivity in Jiangnan, 1620-1850.....................................98
Rural Economy in Jiangnan During the Late Imperial Times..............125
Wages in Huating-Lou Counties in the 1820s........................................142
Involution and Chinese Cotton Textile Production: Songjiang in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries......................181
An Early Modern Economy in China: A Study of the GDP of the Huating-Lou Area, 1823-1829 ..........................................................190
Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century .............206
The ¡°Daoguang Depression¡± and the ¡°Guiwei Great Flood¡±: Economic Decline and Climatic Cataclysm in Early Nineteenth-Century Songjiang in a New Perspective.......................................................245
The Early Modern Economy of the Yangzi Delta in a New Perspective.............................................................................273
An Examination of Traditional Research Methods in Economic History¡ª¡°Choosing the Ref.ined¡±, ¡°Collecting the Essential¡± and ¡°the Agricultural Revolution in the Yangzi Delta During the Song Dynasty¡±............................................................................296
Economic History in China¡ªTradition, Divergence and Potential.....307
Water and the History of China.............................................................334
The Termination of the Silk Road: A Study of the History of the Silk Road in a New Perspective...............................................................347
Book Review: Ni, Yuping. Customs Duties in the Qing Dynasty, ca. 1644-1911. Leiden: Brill, 2016....................................................................365
Author¡¯s Preface: Preface to An Early Modern Economy in China: The Yangzi Delta in the 1820s................................................370
Part II.Conference and lecture papers
The Development of Agriculture and Industry in Jiangnan, 1644-1850: Trends and Prospects.......................................................................377
Traditional Peasant Culture: The Root of China¡¯s Economic Miracle............................................................................408
The Formation of China¡¯s National Market, 1550-1840........................419
Internationalization and Indigenization: The Principal Axis Along which Social and Economic Historiography Has Evolved in China During the Past Two Decades...............................................495
The Farm Economy of Songjiang in the Early Nineteenth Century....500
Involution or Not Involution: The Farm Economy of Songjiang and the Theory of Involution in Chinese Studies...................................544
Climate, Market, Economy and the Nineteenth-Century Crisis...........570
¡°The countrymen are well fed¡± ¡ªA Study of Food Consumption in Early-Nineteenth Century Songjiang...............................................580
Creating a Modern Army: The Late Ming Military Reform under the Shadow of FInancial Crisis..............................................................587
Why Does the Theory of the Great Divergence Matter?¡ªTaking the Case of the Study of the Economic History of the Yangzi Delta................................................................................599
Notes of Papers.............................................................................621