The Prosperity of the Song Dynasty: the Appearance and the Interior of the World of Excellence (Longitude and Latitude Series)

Where did the population boom of the Song Dynasty come from? Where did the huge wealth of the imperial court go? Clarify the prosperous logic of the golden age and show the real life of people in the Song Dynasty. Historical writer Chen Xubin's new work re-examines the face and dignity of the Song Dynasty. This book is divided into three parts. The first part analyzes the reasons for the increase in the total social wealth of the Song Dynasty; the second part describes the ways the Song Dynasty government absorbed it in different periods and how the people moved around to survive; the third part explains why the increased wealth in the two Song Dynasties failed to be converted into reproductive capital. Chen Xubin's writing breaks the top-down orthodox historical view of most current Song history books, focusing on the lower-class groups who have no voice in history, presenting their real and cruel living conditions, revealing the "prosperous" nature of the two Song Dynasties, which "90 million poor and weak people supported 10 million food tax groups", subverting the image of the so-called golden age of classical China, and it is of great enlightenment for a comprehensive understanding of the dynastic system of the two Song Dynasties.