Yi, XuYi; van Leeuwen, Bas; van Zanden, Jan Luiten - Centre for Global Economic History (CGEH), Universiteit … - 2015
This paper presents new estimates of the development of the urban population andthe urbanization ratio for the period … tell us a lot about long-term trends in the Chinese economy between1100 and 1900. During the Song the level of urbanization …. This remained so until the late Ming, but during the Qing there was a downward trend in the levelof urbanization from 11 …