The Flowing Forest: a History of Market Economy in the Qing Dynasty
by Zhang Meng
About This Novel
Rafts flow down the river one after another, transporting wood from the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River to towns downstream. Forest farmers, landowners, lumberjacks, boatmen, gangs, banks, Guanguan, as well as merchant gangs and guilds formed a huge cross-regional market... Through the trade and regeneration of timber, forests seemed to "flow", meeting the needs of the entire Qing Dynasty for the construction of houses, bridges, boats and carts. This book tells how this huge market operates and reveals the secret of sustainable forest development in the Qing Dynasty. How to coordinate between the state and the market? How do economic development and natural resource utilization fit in? The forest market economy in the Qing Dynasty contains experience that can be used for reference.
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