Cover illustration: Sunrise above the rice terraces (Yuanyang, (Yunnan, China)). Photo by Tiraya Adam (
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Names: Levi Sabattini, Elisa, editor. | Schwermann, Christian, editor.
Title: Between command and market : economic thought and practice in early China / edited by Elisa Levi Sabattini, Christian Schwermann.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2022. | Series: Sinica Leidensia, 0169-9563 ; vol.154 | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021033315 (print) | LCCN 2021033316 (ebook) | ISBN 9789004448636 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004466432 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Economics—China—History.
Classification: LCC HB126.C4 B48 2022 (print) | LCC HB126.C4 (ebook) | DDC 330.0951—dc23
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ISSN 0169-9563
ISBN 978-90-04-44863-6 (hardback)
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