Introduction to the Databases of Prices, Wages and Transport Costs in Hunan Province in the Qianlong Reign (Fragment)

The databases of prices, wages, and transport costs in public construction 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 initial participants of the project group were Juliane Kiefner, Christine Moll-Murata, and Hans Ulrich Vogel from Tübingen, and Chen Chaoyong and Su Rongyu from Beijing. The project was supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the Max Planck Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Wissenschaften e.V., Germany.

The Hunan edition of “Regulations and precedents on prices of materials” does not cover all administrative units of the province, but only one prefecture and two independent sub-prefectures, and fourteen districts. In contrast to Zhili province, where the set of prices and wages is given for only one subprefecture or district at a time, prices and wages of several districts are given in one set here. The database contains 477 single entries. Data input and the web presentation was done by Juliane Kiefner, Christine Moll-Murata helped with translation of terminology and proof-reading. In case English terms for building materials remain to be clarified, Hanyu pinyin is given as a preliminary rendering.

The Hunan edition of “Regulations and precedents on prices of materials” we have used is in the holdings of the Central Library of the Academy of Sciences, Peking. It is a manuscript of 57 pages and has no prefatory material such as the Zhili and Gansu editions.

湖南省《物料價值則例》(部分)數據庫介紹

本《物料價值則例》數據庫是在德國學術基基金會(DFG)和馬普基金的支助下，由德國圖賓根大學漢學系和中國科學院自然科學史研究所合作製作。參加人員有德國圖賓根大學漢學系朱麗安、莫克莉、傅漢思，和中國科學院自然科學史研究所陳朝勇、蘇榮譽等。輸入工作和網上發布由朱麗安負責。莫克莉幫助術語的翻譯和校對了全文。其中部分術語英語名稱因翻譯不易，暫以用漢語拼音表示。

本數據庫根據中國科學院文獻中心的抄本製作。全文共57 頁，477筆資料，謹包括湖南省的一個府、兩個直隸州、和14個縣。如在直隸、甘肅省《物料價值則例》前列的奏摺、總略、凡例則未編列在此。

Database of prices, wages, and transport costs in public construction of Hunan Province

Chapters (Excel 2000 spreadsheets):

Chapters (Excel 2000 spreadsheets):