The Economic History of China: With Special Reference to Agriculture, Volum 99,Edició 1

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Columbia University, 1921 - 461 pàgines
 

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Pàgina 49 - If the people cultivate it intensively, each acre can yield three additional pecks (tou) of grain. Therefore, even within an area one hundred miles square, the difference between an addition and a loss of grain will be one million eight hundred thousand bushels (shih). When this doctrine was applied to Wei, the state became rich and...
Pàgina 35 - How a small Tartar tribe succeeded after fifty years of war in imposing its yoke on the sceptical, freedom-loving, and intensely national millions of China will always remain one of the enigmas of history. We have traced the course of these campaigns, but even while venturing to indicate some of the causes of their success, we must still come to the conclusion that the result has exceeded what would at any time during the struggle have been thought to be credible.
Pàgina 49 - ... crop. Of the ordinary laud, one man received a home, one hundred acres of land, and one hundred acres of fallow land ; and of the inferior land, one man received his home and one hundred acres of land together with two hundred acres of fallow land. If any family had a large number, the " supernumerary male " received an amount of land as follows: of the superior land, twelve and a half acres of fallow land ; of ordinary land, twenty-five acres: of inferior land, fifty acres; while in all three...
Pàgina 93 - Those people who moved to another town, or who were so poor that they could not even pay for their funerals, were allowed to sell their perpetual property. Those people who moved from the thickly populated town to the thinly populated one, were allowed to sell even their mouth-share. But after they had sold their land, nothing was given to them again. When the land-owner died, his land was taken by the government and given to those having no land. In the tenth month of every year, the distribution...
Pàgina 169 - He directed his subjects, therefore, to cultivate all and every odd piece of soil, on top of the mountains or at the corners of the land. All these soils are suitable either for rice or for miscellaneous crops. ... no matter how little return the people may receive from cultivation of these lands, it will be always helpful in supplying food provisions for the people. THE INDIAN SUBCONTINENT India's most important contribution to world agriculture is rice (Oryza saliva), the staple food and crop of...
Pàgina 113 - But at present the population is greater, while the land is more scarce than in ancient times.'' Chen Tzu, " No, I do not think so. For instance, the harvest of the soil is just like the grass and wood on the mountain. The mountain will grow grass and wood just as fast as men can use them. The productive power of the universe is always in proportion. How can it be true that the population will be greater than the land supply ? " Questioner, " One hundred mows of the ancient (Chow) are only equivalent...

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