Taxing Heaven's Storehouse
Horses, Bureaucrats, and the Destruction of the Sichuan Tea Industry, 1074-1224
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3964411 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Dieter Kuhn, Paul Jakov Smith (0000-0001-5295-6272) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 113 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 93 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/604199 |
| OpenAlex | W2198482484 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
Part 1: Linking tea and horses - geopolitics and horse supply during the Northern Song - horses and defense, geography and horse supply, the frontier marketing system, reshaping horse procurement market segregation and the structure of the Sichuanese tea industry on the eve of the tea and horse trade - Sichuan and the dissemination of tea culture, the structure of the Sichuanese tea industry on the eve of the tea monopoly bureacracy, social mobilization, and the political integration of Sichuan - Sichuan's magnate society, magnate society under former and later Shu, rebellion and political mobilization during the Song. Part 2: Introduction to part two - Wang Anshi's theory of bureaucratic entrepreneurship - the entrepreneurial leap - attributes of the intendants, the tea market enterprise autonomy, risk reduction, and entrepreneurial expansion - autonomy and the neutralization of rivals, risk reduction through personnel control, agency influence over County Magistrates, boundary spanning and agency control of subsidiary markets, motivating personnel the impact of bureaucratic power on the Sichuan tea economy - reversing the entrepreneurial leap, trimming the Agency's sails - from entrepreneur to manager, the THA and the Sichuan tea industry the limits of bureaucratic power in the tea and horse trade - exchanging tea for horses, losing control of the trade, flying dragons in rocks and mud. Appendices: Northern Song tea and horse agency chiefs, co-intendants, and assistant intendants by years Southern Song tea and horse agency intendants sources on careers of the Northern and Southern Song tea and horse agency intendants tea and horse agency revenues and subventions paid to other agencies, 1074-1115
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
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| Citations per year | 0,57 |
| Citation span | 1996 - 2024 (29) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |