Taxing heaven's storehouse
Subtitle: horses, bureaucrats, and the destruction of the Sichuan tea industry, 1074-1224
By: Paul J. Smith.
Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute monograph series ;; 32
Publisher: Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University; Distributed by Harvard University Press; Harvard University Asia Center
Published: 1991
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 489
Subjects: Tea trade -- China -- Sichuan Sheng -- History.; Horse industry -- China -- Sichuan Sheng -- History.; Tea -- Taxation -- China -- History.; Cavalry horses -- China -- History.; China -- History -- Song dynasty, 960-1279.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [445]-467) and index.
Based on author's doctoral dissertation.