Alternate Title
清代糧價資料庫
Category
Statistics and Data
Institution
Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica
Access
open access
URL
https://mhdb.mh.sinica.edu.tw/databaseinfo.php?b=006
Description
The Qing Dynasty Grain Price Database (清代糧價資料庫), hosted by the Institute of Modern History (Academia Sinica), contains approximately 2.19 million records of grain price data drawn from monthly provincial reports submitted to the emperor beginning in 1736. Compiled over several decades by economist Wang Yeh-chien (1930–2014) in collaboration with institutions in Taiwan, the United States, and China, and finalized at the Institute of Modern History in 2008, it is considered the most reliable and methodologically consistent source of pre-1912 Chinese price history.
Source List
ACLS Open Database Resource Guide
Tags
Late Imperial (1368–1912) Economy Dataset
Last Modified
5/29/2026 10:54pm