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Dynasties, Events, and Equivalents -- I. Dynasties and Events -- II. Weights and Capacity -- III. Units of Currencies -- Introduction -- Structure of the Book -- Part I. The Market Economy in Late Imperial China -- Chapter 1. Issues and Approaches -- Depicting Market Expansion in Preindustrial China -- Measuring Agricultural Productivity -- Chapter 2. The Nature of Song and Ming Economic Data -- The Ho Puzzle and the Reliability of Chinese Population Data -- The Poll Tax Era: 220 BC to 755 AD -- The Indirect Taxation Era: The Song Fiscal State and the Birth of Market-Based Data -- The Land Taxes Era: An Inefficient Mode of Taxation -- The Heyday of a Command Economy Era and the Early Ming Data -- The Debate over Song Population Data -- Conclusion -- Part II. The Song Era -- Chapter 3. How Large Was the Money Economy? -- Divergence in the Song and Ming Economies: Population and Price -- The Rise of a Command Economy in the Early Ming -- Reconstruction of Domestic Markets in 1077 AD and 1381 AD -- Long-Term Changes in the Money Supply -- A Tentative Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Trade and Water Transport in the Eleventh Century -- The Structure of Song Inland Water Transport -- The Decline of Transportation Costs -- Kaifeng in the Eleventh-Century National Market -- Conclusion -- Part III. The Ming Era -- Chapter 5. China after 1200: Crisis and Disintegration -- A Sharp Decline in Population and Urban Consumption -- Disappearance of Monetized Taxation during the Late Fourteenth Century -- Shrinking in Water Transports -- Limit of Sixteenth-Century Trade -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6. Prices, Real Wages, and National Incomes -- Real Wages in the Song and Ming Eras -- Inequality in the Market Economy -- The Share of State Revenue in National Income -- Conclusion.