INTRODUCTION: CHINESE HISTORY IN ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE / Thomas G. Rawski and Lillian M. Li PART ONE PRICE BEHAVIOR 1. Secular Trends of Rice Prices in the Yangzi Delta, 1638–1935 / Yeh-chien Wang 2. Grain Prices in Zhili Province, 1736–1911: a Preliminary Study / Lillian M. Li 3. The Qing State and the Gansu Grain Market, 1739–1864 / Peter C. Perdue 4. Grain Markets and Food Supplies in Eighteenth-Century Hunan / R. Bin Wong and Peter C. Perdue 5. Infanticide and Family Planning in Late Imperial China: the Price and Population History of Rural Liaoning, 1774–1873 / James Lee, Cameron Campbell, and Guofu Tan PART TWO MARKET RESPONSE 6. Land Concentration and Income Distribution in Republican China / Loren Brandt and Barbara Sands 7. Farming, Sericulture, and Peasant Rationality in Wuxi County in the Early Twentieth Century / Lynda S. Bell 8. Women's Work in the Ningbo Area, 1900–1936 / Susan Mann 9. Native-Place Hierarchy and Labor Market Segmentation: the Case of Subei People in Shanghai / Emily Honig 10. Local Interest Story: Political Power and Regional Differences in the Shandong Capital Market, 1900–1937 / Kenneth Pomeranz