The economy of lower Yangzi delta in late imperial China : connecting money, markets, and institutions / Billy K. L. So.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Economic values and social space in historical lower Yangzi delta economy : an introductory essay / by Billy K. L. So -- Money, productivity, and price : a matter of economic values -- Cycles of silver in Chinese monetary history / by Richard von Glahn -- Cotton textile production in Jiangnan during the Ming-Qing era and the matter of market-driven growth / by Harriet Zurndorfer -- Agricultural productivity in early modern Jiangnan / by Guanglin Liu -- Copper, silver, and tea : the question of eighteenth-century inflation in the lower Yangzi delta / by Sui-wai Cheung -- An early modern economy in China : a study of the gdp of Huating-Lou area, 1823-29 / by Bozhong Li -- Urbanization, institutions, and networks: a matter of social space -- On the emergence and intensification of the pattern of rural-urban continuum in late imperial Jiangnan society / by Shiba Yoshinobu -- Institutions in market economies of premodern maritime China / by Billy K. L. So -- The rise of Huizhou merchants : kinship and commerce in Ming China / by Joseph P. McDermott -- Conditions and risks of water transport in the late Ming Songjiang region as seen in the cases collected in Maoyilu's Yunjian Yanlüe / by Ka-chai Tam -- Brokers and "guild" organizations (huiguan) in China's maritime trade with Japan in high Qing / by Angela Schottenhammer.