Books by Lillian M. Li

This monumental work provides a new perspective on the changing historical significance of famines in China over the last three centuries by examining the relationship between state policies, natural crises, economic change, and ideological imperatives.

The development of modern China's most important export commodity, silk, is traced from the opening of the treaty ports to the 1930s. This study examines the silk industry, one of China's most advanced traditional economic enterprises, as it moved into large-scale trade with the West.