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Article: Malthus Goes to China: The Effect of “Positive Checks” on Grain Market Development, 1736–1910
Title | Malthus Goes to China: The Effect of “Positive Checks” on Grain Market Development, 1736–1910 |
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Issue Date | 2021 |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JEH |
Citation | The Journal of Economic History, 2021, v. 81 n. 4, p. 1137-1172 How to Cite? |
Abstract | After peaking around the mid-eighteenth century, grain market integration in China declined by a colossal 80 percent amid a twofold increase in population and remained at low levels for well over a century. Markets only resumed their growth momentum after the largest peasant revolt—the Taiping Rebellion—wiped out roughly one-sixth of the Chinese population starting 1851. This U-shaped pattern of grain market integration distinguished China from Europe in their trajectories of market development. Using grain prices to divide China into grain-deficit and grainsurplus regions, we find that the negative relationship between population growth and market integration originated from the grain-surplus-cum-exporting regions. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/305188 |
ISSN | 2021 Impact Factor: 2.459 2020 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.346 |
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dc.contributor.author | Gu, Y | - |
dc.contributor.author | Kung, KSJ | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2021-10-20T10:05:52Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2021-10-20T10:05:52Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | The Journal of Economic History, 2021, v. 81 n. 4, p. 1137-1172 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0022-0507 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/305188 | - |
dc.description.abstract | After peaking around the mid-eighteenth century, grain market integration in China declined by a colossal 80 percent amid a twofold increase in population and remained at low levels for well over a century. Markets only resumed their growth momentum after the largest peasant revolt—the Taiping Rebellion—wiped out roughly one-sixth of the Chinese population starting 1851. This U-shaped pattern of grain market integration distinguished China from Europe in their trajectories of market development. Using grain prices to divide China into grain-deficit and grainsurplus regions, we find that the negative relationship between population growth and market integration originated from the grain-surplus-cum-exporting regions. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.publisher | Cambridge University Press. The Journal's web site is located at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=JEH | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | The Journal of Economic History | - |
dc.rights | The Journal of Economic History. Copyright © Cambridge University Press. | - |
dc.title | Malthus Goes to China: The Effect of “Positive Checks” on Grain Market Development, 1736–1910 | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.identifier.email | Kung, KSJ: jkskung@hku.hk | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Kung, KSJ=rp02402 | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0022050721000437 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-85116529228 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 326823 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 81 | - |
dc.identifier.issue | 4 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 1137 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 1172 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000721739600007 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | - |