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A Different Trajectory: Market-Consciousness in Chinese Political Economy, 800–1800

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Abstract

This article engages critically with William Rowe's notion of an “alternative economic discourse” linking the market-consciousness shown in some aspects of Dong Wei's approach to famine relief in the Song dynasty to that which informed many subsistence-policy discussions and some aspects of bureaucratic practice during the high Qing. The longevity of the discursive tradition is shown to be understated if we start with Dong Wei, but it is also taken as an interpretative challenge. Comparison with the case of ancien régime France is used to suggest an alternative conceptualization that enables us to differentiate between (1) a mainstream tradition of conventionally accepted market-conscious prescriptions that were not perceived as challenging Confucian moralism, and (2) avant-garde departures. A review of the arguments used down the centuries to justify distributing famine relief in monetary form is used to pinpoint one such departure and to reflect on its significance in a multi-century perspective.

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Song to Qingmarket-consciousnessfamine relief
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Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , Volume 4 , Issue 1 , January 2020 , pp. 55 - 83
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83 Pace Rowe, Saving the World, 183–84.

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103 Zhong Huamin, “Jiuhuang tushuo,” Anon., “Zhenhuang shishi,” and Yu Sen, untitled editorial introduction, all in Zhong Zhonghui gong zhen Yu jilüe, 1b–2a, 3a, 12b–13a, 16a, 22a–23b; Yim Shui-yuen, “Famine Relief Statistics,” 12–13, 19–22 (tables 1–4); Brook, Timothy, “Telling Famine Stories: The Wanli Emperor and the ‘Henan Famine’ of 1594,” Études Chinoises 34, no. 2 (2015), 180–86Google Scholar.

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107 Cf. Rowe, Saving the World, 185, 201.

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110 Sen, Poverty and Famines, 45.

111 Kaplan, Bread, Politics and Political Economy, 101–4.

112 Deng Hailun, “Ganyu,” 82–83.

113 Sen, Poverty and Famines, 8.