Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface by D. C. Twitchett
- Acknowledgements
- A note on weights and measures
- The Ming emperors
- Map of Ming provinces
- 1 Fiscal organization and general practices
- 2 The heritage of the sixteenth century and major fiscal problems
- 3 The land tax—(i) Tax structure
- 4 The land tax—(ii) Tax administration
- 5 The salt monopoly
- 6 Miscellaneous incomes
- 7 Financial management
- 8 Concluding observations
- List of abbreviations
- Appendixes
- Notes to the text
- Bibliography
- Glossary index
- General index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface by D. C. Twitchett
- Acknowledgements
- A note on weights and measures
- The Ming emperors
- Map of Ming provinces
- 1 Fiscal organization and general practices
- 2 The heritage of the sixteenth century and major fiscal problems
- 3 The land tax—(i) Tax structure
- 4 The land tax—(ii) Tax administration
- 5 The salt monopoly
- 6 Miscellaneous incomes
- 7 Financial management
- 8 Concluding observations
- List of abbreviations
- Appendixes
- Notes to the text
- Bibliography
- Glossary index
- General index
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- Taxation and Governmental Finance in Sixteenth-Century Ming China , pp. xii - xiiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1975