"My focus on the culture of consumption and social investment in Ming China was what led me to prices. Once I began to find them, I looked up from the texts I was reading and realized that the history of consumption was pointing me not just to price history but to climate history as well, for it was in periods of climate disturbance that prices rose and chroniclers thought to write them down."
"This book presents a synthesis of what I have found. It is not so much a history of Ming prices as an account of the role that prices played in mediating the relationship between the people of the Ming and the climate that turned against them."
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