Tables, Maps, Figures

Weights, Measures, and Unites of Currency

Abbreviations and Citation Conventions

Introduction

Part I: Private-Sector Stockpiling: State Versus Hoarder

1. Legal Ambiguity, Coercive Practice

2. The Subtler Ways of Handling Hoarders

3. Interventionism Questioned

Part II: Public-Sector Stockpiling: The State As Hoarder?

4. The Issues in the Ever-Normal Granaries Debate

5. A Sage and His Advisors: 1738-43

6. Overt and Covert: 1744-47

7. The Grand Discussion: 1748-49

8. The Slashing of the Targets

9. Of Loose Ends and Parallel Developments

Conclusion: Political Economy or Political Process?

Appendix: Chronology of the Granaries Debate

Bibliography

Character List

Index

Helen Dunstan is Professor of Chinese Studies at the University of Sydney.