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Taxation and Governmental Finance in Sixteenth-Century Ming China

By Ray Huang

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0521104874, 9780521104876, 0521202833, 9780521202831
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5116365 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Studies in Chinese History, Literature and Institutions
Pages
403\403
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Originally published in 1974, this is a detailed study of the financial administration of the Chinese government during the Ming dynasty (1368-1644), with particular attention to the sixteenth century, a topic about which very little has been published either in Chinese or any Western language. Professor Huang has worked through an enormous quantity and variety of source material - in particular the 133 substantial volumes of the Ming Veritable Records - and has compared the documents on financial matters with the entries in local gazetteers. The complicated workings of government finance present great difficulties to all specialists in Chinese financial and administrative history and in different branches of local Chinese history from the fifteenth century onwards. Professor Huang's study will provide all such researchers with an authoritative work of reference.

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