Trade and Expansion in Han China : A Study in the Structure of Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1967. Frontmatter Chronology (page xiii) Table of Equivalents (page xiv) one Introduction: The Problem and Its Origins (page 1) two Policy Background and Foundations of Trade (page 9) three General Sino-Barbarian Economic Relations Under the Tributary System (page 36) four Surrendered Barbarians and Their Treatment (page 65) Appendix to Chapter Four (page 89) five Frontier Trade (page 92) six Economic Relations Between China and the Western Countries (page 133) seven Overseas Trade (page 172) eight Conclusions: Trade and Expansion in Historical Perspective (page 188) Abbreviations (page 220) Bibliography (page 221) Glossary (page 235) Index (page 239)