(DFG)

5300
10105285

sinologie@uni-tuebingen.de

 















 







 








 




Preface

This database of prices, wages, and transport costs in public construction in Shanxi province in the Qianlong reign has been set up in cooperation of the Seminar für Sinologie und Koreanistik, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany, and the Institute for History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. The participants of our project group were Chen Chaoyong and Su Rongyu from Beijing, and Christine Moll-Murata and Hans Ulrich Vogel from Tübingen. We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V., Germany.

Data input was done by Zhang Songmei. Christine Moll-Murata, Chen Chaoyong, and Liu Qiang helped with translations. Our thanks go to Liu Qiang (Institute for History of Science and Technology & Ancient Documents, Tsinghua University, Beijing) who proof-read all data. The database has more than 5,300 entries.

In case English terms for building materials remain to be clarified, Hanyu pinyin is given as a preliminary rendering. An English-Chinese glossary for all occurring terms is under construction.


For this database, we used the Shanxi edition of Regulations and precedents on prices of materials in the holdings of the Collège de France (Institut des Hautes Études Chinoises, Bibliothèques d'Extrême-Orient), Paris. It is an official printing in sixteen chapters which carries the same editorial material as the Gansu, Zhili, and Yunnan editions. The second prefatory memorial gives the date 20th day of the XIIth month of Qianlong 33 (Jan. 27, 1769). This work covers ten prefectures, ten independent subprefectures (zhili zhou), five ordinary subprefectures (zhou), two intermediary subprefectures (ting) and 85 districts. Unlike the other editions, the chapters are paginated separately for each district.
Comments and suggestions are welcome at sinologie@uni-tuebingen.de.

Table of contents
Chapter 1: Taiyuan
Chapter 2: Taiyuan
Chapter 3: Zhili Pingding zhou, Zhili Xinzhou, Zhili Daizhou, Zhili Baode zhou
Chapter 4: Pingyang
Chapter 5: Pingyang
Chapter 6: Puzhou, Zhili Xiezhou
Chapter 7: Zhili Jiangzhou
Chapter 8: Zhili Jizhou, Zhili Xizhou
Chapter 9: Luan
Chapter 10: Fenzhou
Chapter 11: Fenzhou
Chapter 12: Zhili Qinzhou, Zezhou, Zhili Liaozhou
Chapter 13: Datong
Chapter 14: Datong
Chapter 15: Ningwu
Chapter 16: Shuoping

Materials
Wages
Transport costs