| Philip A. Kuhn - 1990 - 326 頁
...greater security or less, may have been rather different from what we would expect in a growing economy. From the standpoint of an eighteenth-century Chinese...of survival in a competitive and crowded society. Commerce and manufacturing enabled hard-pressed rural families to hang on, but only through maximum... | |
| 1993 - 280 頁
...greater security or less, may have been rather different from what we would expect in a growing economy. From the standpoint of an eighteenth-century Chinese...of survival in a competitive and crowded society. ... A free-wheeling labor market, the decline of personal dependency and servile status . . . [were]... | |
| Thomas M. Buoye - 2006 - 300 頁
...Philip Kuhn has noted, at the macroeconomic level the eighteenth century was a prosperous era, but the very economic changes that brought prosperity...ordinary peasant household. "From the standpoint of an eighteendi-century Chinese commoner, commercial growth may have meant, not the prospect of riches or... | |
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