Nourish the People : The State Civilian Granary System in China, 1650-1850

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 diff...

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Main Author: Will, Pierre-Etienne (auth)
Other Authors: Wong, R. (auth), Wong, R. Bin (auth)
Format: eBook
Published: University of Michigan Press 2020
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