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202 Boundaries and Beyond The concept of Sinocentrism, that supposedly manifested the Chinese world view as expressed in the tri ...
Information and Knowledge 203 active threat, partly because of the illusion that distance precluded an imminent danger to China. ...
204 Boundaries and Beyond With reference to information and empire building, C.A. Bayly observes that British knowledge of India ...
PART THREE Pushing the Traditional Boundaries Part Three consists of ϔive chapters illustrating attempts to push the traditional ...
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207 ĈčĆĕęĊė 7 The Changing Landscape in Rural South Fujian in Late-Ming Times: A Story of the “Little People” (1) Changing Socio ...
208 Boundaries and Beyond The discussion examines the changing socioeconomic conditions in rural southern Fujian in late Ming ti ...
The Changing Landscape in Rural South Fujian 209 Prefecture Tang Song Yuan Ming Jianning 建宁 22,770 hu 142,774 kou 197,137 hu 439 ...
210 Boundaries and Beyond AD 1391 AD 1502 815,527 hu 508,649 hu 3,916,806 kou 2,062,683 kou When reading a traditional Chinese c ...
The Changing Landscape in Rural South Fujian 211 Agricultural production would have better chances of yielding enough surplus fo ...
212 Boundaries and Beyond of the coastal plains. For instance, the land situation in Yongchun, an inland district of Quanzhou, b ...
The Changing Landscape in Rural South Fujian 213 any kind could be achieved there; whence it appeared to me that this country is ...
214 Boundaries and Beyond Year Area 1571 12,038.94 1612 12,453.87 1711 12,744.84 1767 10,213.74 Remedies for the lack of arable ...
The Changing Landscape in Rural South Fujian 215 Quanzhou often had to lift water from the wells by means of pulleys.^31 The wat ...
216 Boundaries and Beyond Year Location Calamity 1548 Zhangpu βloods 1549 Whole prefecture earthquake 1557 Zhao’an damage from h ...
The Changing Landscape in Rural South Fujian 217 food, relative immunity to locusts, greater resistance to drought and the fact ...
218 Boundaries and Beyond common government practice to balance the annual budget. As early as AD 1551, a land surtax amounting ...
The Changing Landscape in Rural South Fujian 219 its administration. Since tax inequities resulted from the privileged exemption ...
220 Boundaries and Beyond eight post-stages (yi) at which couriers took their rest or shift.^53 It was a government service for ...
The Changing Landscape in Rural South Fujian 221 privilege, the “grand leaseholder” sold his holding at a very low price to some ...
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