Taxation And Governmental Finance In Sixteenth-century Ming China (cambridge Studies In Chinese History, Literature And Institutions)
by Ray Huang /
2009 / English / PDF
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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.
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.
