TY  - JOUR
SN  - 1012-4195
T1  - Models for Development or Institutional Characteristics?—The Reform of the Tax System and Land Reclamation in the Lower Yangtze Delta in the 15th and 16th Centuries
AU  - Shi Xie
Y1  - 2012/06/01
PY  - 2012
DA  - 2012/06/01
T2  - Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
JF  - Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
JO  - Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
JA  - Bulletin of the Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
VL  - 83
IS  - 2
SP  - 345
EP  - 388
KW  - Lower Yangtze Delta, agriculture, taxes, land, delta
Y2  - 2012/06/01
N2  - Due to the reform of the tax system, a quantity of “wasteland,” which was, in fact, abandoned land appeared in the Lower Yangtze Delta during the 15th and 16th centuries. An analysis of the institutional characteristics of land development and reclamation in the Lower Yangtze Delta area is far more suitable for discussing this phenomenon than models for the “intensive” development of rice-growing deltas. In the second half of the 16th century, several unconventional financial institutions, which succeeded in creating a stable and effective financial system, were developed to solve the wasteland problem.
ER  -