Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China Book

	List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
	Dynasties, Qing Dynasty Emperors' Reign Dates, and Weights and Measures
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
1	"Firs and Pines a Hundred Spans Round": The Natural Environment of Lingnan	16
2	"All Deeply Forested and Wild Places Are Not Malarious": Human Settlement and Ecological Change in Lingnan, 2-1400 CE	53
3	"Agriculture Is the Foundation": Economic Recovery and Development of Lingnan during the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644	84
4	"All the People Have Fled": War and the Environment in the Mid-Seventeenth-Century Crisis, 1644-83	134
5	"Rich Households Compete to Build Ships": Overseas Trade and Economic Recovery	163
6	"It Never Used to Snow": Climatic Change and Agricultural Productivity	195
7	"There Is Only a Certain Amount of Grain Produced": Granaries and the Role of the State in the Food Supply System	226
8	"Trade in Rice Is Brisk": Market Integration and the Environment	249
9	"Population Increases Daily, but the Land Does Not": Land Clearance in the Eighteenth Century	277
10	"People Said that Extinction Was Not Possible": The Ecological Consequences of Land Clearance	309
	Conclusion	333
	Bibliography	346
	Index	371