A Comprehensive History of Chinese Handicraft Economy (Song and Yuan Volumes)

Author: Hu Xiaopeng
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Publish Date: 2004-11-01
Features: The "Comprehensive History of Chinese Handicraft Economy" series utilizes methods from economics and history, combining interdisciplinary approaches of economic history and the history of handicrafts to conduct a comprehensive and systematic theoretical and empirical study of China's handicraft economy from the pre-Qin period to the Opium War. It preliminarily establishes a basic theoretical framework for the history of handicraft economy and a dynamic system of the development and changes of handicraft itself. This book covers the Song and Yuan dynasties, divided into two parts that respectively elaborate on the development of China's handicraft economy during the Song and Yuan periods. The book primarily introduces the state-run handicraft industry of the Song Dynasty, the folk handicraft industry of the Song Dynasty, the textile industry of the Song Dynasty, the mining, smelting, and metal processing industry of the Song Dynasty, the coin minting industry of the Song Dynasty, and the food processing industry of the Song Dynasty.