Download or read book An Estimate of the Land-Tax Collection in China, 1753 and 1908 written by v Wang and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, resulting from extensive research on the land tax in China during the Ch'ing Dynasty (1644-1911), is based on the multivolume Ts'ai-cheng shuo-ming-shu (Financial reports) produced from a nationwide survey of public finance, 1908-1910, and numerous local gazetteers. It reveals in detail the complexity of surcharges levied with tax quotas, and so provides the first realistic estimate of the land tax actually collected in different provinces and districts.