Yang, Lien-sheng - Studies in Chinese Institutional History

Cambridge, Harvard University Press, (1969). 3rd Printing, orig. wrappers. 25x17cm, (2),229 pp, Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Studies, XX.. Cover creased, small tear to title page, rubbed, Good. ¶ Contents: Toward a Study of Dynastic Configurations in Chinese History; Schedules of Work & Rest in Imperial China; Hostages in Chinese History; Economic Justification for Spending - An Uncommon Idea in Traditional China; Numbers & Units in Chinese Economic History; Notes on Dr. Swann's ' Food & Money in Ancient China'; Notes on the Economic History of the Chin Dynasty; Buddhist Monasteries & Four Money-Raising Institutions in Chinese History; The Form of the Paper Note Hui-tzu of the Southern Sung Dynasty.