Smith, Paul J. 　著

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Part 1: Linking tea and horses - geopolitics and horse supply during theNorthern Song - horses and defense, geography and horse supply, the frontiermarketing system, reshaping horse procurement; market segregation and thestructure of the Sichuanese tea industry on the eve of the tea and horsetrade - Sichuan and the dissemination of tea culture, the structure of theSichuanese tea industry on the eve of the tea monopoly; bureacracy, socialmobilization, and the political integration of Sichuan - Sichuan's magnatesociety, magnate society under former and later Shu, rebellion and politicalmobilization during the Song. Part 2: Introduction to part two - Wang Anshi'stheory of bureaucratic entrepreneurship - the entrepreneurial leap -attributes of the intendants, the tea market enterprise; autonomy, riskreduction, and entrepreneurial expansion - autonomy and the neutralization ofrivals, risk reduction through personnel control, agency influence overCounty Magistrates, boundary spanning and agency control of subsidiarymarkets, motivating personnel; the impact of bureaucratic power on theSichuan tea economy - reversing the entrepreneurial leap, trimming theAgency's sails - from entrepreneur to manager, the THA and the Sichuan teaindustry; the limits of bureaucratic power in the tea and horse trade -exchanging tea for horses, losing control of the trade, flying dragons inrocks and mud. Appendices: Northern Song tea and horse agency chiefs,co-intendants, and assistant intendants by years; Southern Song tea and horseagency intendants; sources on careers of the Northern and Southern Song teaand horse agency intendants; tea and horse agency revenues and subventionspaid to other agencies, 1074-1115.