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The Grain Tribute System of China, 1845â1911
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The Grain Tribute System, which transported rice from the Yangtze Valley to the Ch'ing capital, Peking, declined as an institution during the nineteenth century. This thorough investigation connects the collapse of the waterway and the grain transported with the eventual fall of the Chinese empire a century later.