The Price of Grain Since the Qing Dynasty--Historical Explanations and Re-explanations

Author: Peng Kaixiang
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: This book attempts to present the history of an anonymous, continuous medium in a historical explanation. The specific research object is the historical price series of grain (from the mid-17th century to the present). The analysis of data quality and the review of previous explanations provide a foundation for the book's intention in terms of material and academic theory. In the process of explanation, the book starts from Braudel's concept of historical time, supplemented by time series analysis and tools provided by economics, making the temporal structure of the grain price history the core of the narrative instead of isolated variables such as population, money, and climate. Ultimately, the approach of the book leads to a dialectical understanding of this temporal structure.