Volume I: Introduction to Volume I Debin Ma and Richard von Glahn; Part I. Before 1000: 1. The economy of late pre-imperial China: Archaeological perspectives Lothar von Falkenhausen; 2. Agriculture and its environmental impact Motoko Hara; 3. State and economy: Production, extraction, and distribution Richard von Glahn; 4. Markets, money, and merchants Y¿hei Kakinuma; 5. Economic philosophy and political economy Richard von Glahn; 6. Silk Road trade and foreign economic influences Xinru Liu; Interlude. The Tang-Song transition in Chinese economic history Richard von Glahn; Part II. 1000 to 1800: 7. Ecological change and resource constraints David A. Bello; 8. Population change Shuji Cao; 9. Public finance Christian Lamouroux and Richard von Glahn; 10. Political economy Helen Dunstan; 11. Law and the market economy Billy K. L. So and Sufumi So; 12. Property rights and factor markets Mio Kishimoto; 13. The rural economy Kenneth Pomeranz; 14. Cities and the urban economy Harriet Zurndorfer; 15. The monetary system Akinobu Kuroda; 16. Merchants and commercial networks Joseph P. McDermott; 17. Foreign trade Angela Schottenhammer; 18. Production, consumption, and living standards Zhiwu Chen and Kaixiang Peng. Volume II: Introduction to Volume II Debin Ma and Richard von Glahn; Part I. 1800-1950: 1. Ideology and the contours of economic changes in modern China during 1850-1950 Debin Ma; 2. Economic transition in the nineteenth century William Rowe; 3. Agriculture Debin Ma and Kaixiang Peng; 4. Handicraft and modern industries Linda Grove and Toru Kubo; 5. The state and enterprises in late Qing China Chi-kong Lai; 6. Development and expansion of central and regional state enterprises during the first half of the twentieth century Morris L. Bian; 7. Money and macro-economy Dan Li and Hongzhong Yan; 8. Public finance Elisabeth Kaske and May-li Lin; 9. Financial institutions and financial markets Bret Sheehan and Yingui Zhu; 10. Chinese business organization Madeleine Zelin; 11. Impact of the west: Findings from the new data James Kung; 12. Foreign trade and investment Carol Shiue and Wolfgang Keller; 13. Transport and communication infrastructure Elisabeth Köll; 14. Education and human capital, 1800-1950 Bas van Leeuwen, Pei Gao and Meimei Wang; Part II. 1950-Present: 15. The origin of China's communist institutions Chenggang Xu; 16. China under the command economy in 1950-1977 Dwight H. Perkins; 17. Living standards in Maoist China Chris Bramall; 18. The political economy of China's Great Leap Famine James Kung; 19. China's external economic relations during the Mao era Amy King; 20. Chinese economy in the reform era Barry Naughton; 21. China's great boom as a historical process Loren Brandt and Thomas G. Rawski.