ABSTRACT
In respect of the Economic History of China during the whole period from the end of the T’ang (a.d. 906) right up to modern times, comparatively little exists in the way of published work. Books or articles to which students may be referred, for the detailed or analytical study of the subject, are far less numerous for this later period than for the preceding periods. There are some special and general studies—both those which take a wide sweep of time, and discuss the general trends or principles of this large expanse of historical development, and those which are concerned with a close examination of certain special questions and particular periods. But the bibliography (in respect of specialised and definitive economic treatises, at least, as distinct from general historical accounts) will be found to be much more restricted, relative to the great length and complexity of the post-T’ang period, than that relating to more ancient times.
