ABOUT THIS BOOK

The Qing state, driven by Confucian precepts of good government and urgent practical needs, committed vast resources to its granaries. Nourish the People traces the basic practices of this system, analyzes the organizational bases of its successes and failures, and examines variant practices in different regions. The volume concludes with an assessment of the granary system’s social and economic impact and historical comparison with the food supply policies of other states.

AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

Pierre-Etienne WILL is Directeur d'études at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.

R. Bin WONG is Distinguished Professor of History at University of California, Los Angeles.

TABLE OF 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

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