Harold M. Tanner
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“Since large, powerful landowners were better able to resist taxation than individual families, this often meant that the state’s tax revenue declined.”
― China: A History (Volume 1): From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire,
― China: A History (Volume 1): From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire,
“In a world that respects usefulness, Zhuangzi finds value in uselessness, pointing out that a great, crooked tree, useless for timber, will live long, while the trees that are useful to men are abused and their lives cut short.”
― China: A History (Volume 1): From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire,
― China: A History (Volume 1): From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire,
“much as one-third or even one-half of all the silver mined in the Spanish colonies ended up in the Ming Empire from the mid-16th to the early 17th centuries.”
― China: A History (Volume 1): From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire,
― China: A History (Volume 1): From Neolithic Cultures through the Great Qing Empire,
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