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Chapter 10 - Imperial China under the Song and late Qing

from Part II - Determinants of Intensification and Abatement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

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Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States , pp. 308 - 342
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