Agricultural change and the peasant economy of South China (Harvard East Asian series)

Introduction -- Conditions Of Rice Culture: Labor Requirements And Land Tenure -- Factors In Rice Cultivation -- Market Stimulus And Economic Change: The Case Of Fukien -- Regional Diversity In The Development Of Hunan -- Agricultural Change And The Peasant Economy -- Fukien's Population In The Ming Period -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index A Revision Of The Author's Thesis, Harvard, 1967, Issued Under The Name Of E. Sakakida, With Title: Fukien In The Mid-sixteenth Century: A Socio-economic Study. Bibliography: P. [245]-269. This book focuses on two prvinces of south China -- sixteenth-centiury Fukien, a coastal province, and eighteenth-century Hunana, an interior province -- to illustrate the cuases and effects of agricultural change in the context of historical transformations in commerce. It examines such topics and transport and georgraphical constraints on agricultural development, the ecology of rice culture, and the economic significance of various forms of land tenure