Talk:Economy of the Qing dynasty

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North8000 (talk) 12:25, 3 November 2023 (UTC)

The Ideological Foundations of Qing Taxation Page 298

Can someone verify the actual statement in this page as the wiki sentence inferred from this looks strange. Late Qing Chinese population was about 400 million people and the figure below does not make sense.

His solution was chemistry, in the form of fertiliser, which he theorised would allow China to support 300% its current population over 1,200,000, a figure lower than China's population today.(8) 49.245.51.235 (talk) 07:07, 8 January 2025 (UTC)

Taken from the Source cited. "A couple of years later, Zhang Zhidong would make a somewhat similar argument in his famed Quan Xue Pian (An Exhortation to Learning): “If we fail to properly study agriculture ... then despite our vast territory and huge population, we can never avoid the criticism that our land is already filled to the brink and our population already too large. But what is the most important thing to teach about agriculture? It is, in fact, chemistry.”107 Proper application of chemical fertilizer would, in Zhang’s mind, allow China to support up to three times its current population – a surprisingly accurate prediction, perhaps by coincidence, in light of later economic and demographic developments in the twentieth century." Hurera123 (talk) 11:53, 11 January 2025 (UTC)