Shi, Jinbo is a Fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He has authored The Society of Western Xia and Tangut Language and Manuscripts, and edited The Revised Laws of Heavenly Prosperity and The Russian Collection of Khara-Khoto Manuscripts.Li, Hansong is a scholar of political, legal, and economic thought in the Department of Government and the Centre for History and Economics at Harvard University.

• Translator’s PrefaceHansong LiList of IllustrationsIntroductionShi Jinbo1 The Empire of Western Xia and the Tangut Economy1 Natural Conditions of Western Xia2 Dangxiang People and Their Economy before the Tangut Empire3 Founding of Western Xia and Its Economy4 Tangut Politics and Economy in the Early Period of Western Xia5 Tangut Politics and Economy in the Middle Period of Western Xia6 Tangut Politics and Economy in the Late Period of Western Xia2 Economic Records in the Corpus of Tangut Manuscripts1 Economic Regulations in the Laws of Heavenly Prosperity2 Economic Documents in the Corpus of Tangut Social Documents3 Tangut Documents of Household Registrations1 Household Registers and Accounts2 Household Self-Reports (Shoushi)3 Analysis of Khara-Khoto Household Registers4 Tangut Tax Records1 Accounts of Agricultural Taxes2 Accounts of Land and Forage Taxes3 Poll Tax4 Irrigation Tax5 Land Tax Increase and Grain Storage6 Features of Agricultural Taxes in Western Xia5 Accounts of Grains and Properties1 Accounts of Grains2 Accounts of Properties6 Records of Trade and Transaction1 Transaction Accounts and Commodity Prices2 Accounts of Transaction Taxes3 Accounts of Monetary Loans and Interests4 Accounts of Grain Loans and Debt5 Accounts of Land Sales6 Features of Tangut Trade and Transaction Records7 Tangut Contracts1 Types and Formats of Tangut Contracts2 Loan Contracts3 Transaction Contracts4 Lease Contracts5 Employment Contracts6 Exchange and Mortgage Contracts7 Communal Contracts8 Features of Tangut Contracts8 Economic Records in Chinese1 Markets and Materials2 ContractsEpilogueBibliographyIndex