Title Nourish the people : the state civilian granary system in China, 1650-1850 / Pierre-Etienne Will and R. Bin Wong.

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Ann Arbor, Michigan : University of Michigan Press, 1991.

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Description	1 online resource (xxiv, 607 pages) : maps.
	data file rda
Series	Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies ; no. 60
	Michigan monographs in Chinese studies ; no. 60.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Funding	Sponsored by National Endowment for the Humanities
Note	Description based on information from the publisher.
Contents	Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Chinese Traditions of Grain Storage -- Part I: Development and Decline -- Introduction -- 2. Foundations of Success, 1650-1735 -- 3. The Grand Structure, 1736-1780 -- 4. Decline and Its Opposition, 1781-1850 -- Conclusion -- Part II: Structural Problems -- Introduction -- 5. Grain Preservation -- 6. Management -- 7. The Control Structure -- 8. Statistical Difficulties and Accounting Methods -- Part III: Spatial Patterns -- Introduction
	9. National Patterns of Granary Activity -- 10. North China: Shandong during the Qianlong Period -- 11. The Middle Yangzi: Hunan -- 12. The Southwest: Yunnan and Guizhou -- Conclusion -- Part IV: A Comparative Assessment -- 13. Qing Granaries and Late Imperial History -- 14. Qing Granaries and World History -- Appendix: Tables of Civilian Granary Holdings in Qing China, 1741-1856 -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index
Subject	Grain trade -- Government policy -- China -- History.
	Granaries -- Government policy -- China -- History.
	Food supply -- Government policy -- China -- History.
	Agriculture and state -- China -- History.
	Agriculture and state. (OCoLC)fst00801722
	Food supply -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00931206
	Grain trade -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst00946082
	Granaries -- Government policy. (OCoLC)fst01425435
	China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
	SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Added Author	Wong, Roy Bin, author.
	Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), issuing body.
Other Form:	Print version: Will, Pierre-Etienne Nourish the People : The State Civilian Granary System in China, 1650-1850 Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies Publications,c1991 9780892640904
ISBN	9780472127863 electronic book
	9780472901821 open access
Standard No.	10.3998/mpub.19044 doi

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