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Jin (Jurchen) · Money & Society
Inside a Jurchen Military Household: Soldiers, Fields and Property Tax
The Jin Shi gives three different sizes for the same military unit, each dated, and quotas plus realm-wide totals that never add up to one household's fields, tax or conscripts.
Jin (Jurchen) · Daily Life
One Table, Two Chairs: The Banquet Set Out in a Jin Tomb
A Jin tomb in Shanxi paints the same banquet on two walls and sets a real table and two chairs before the coffin platform. What the murals and the bowls can say about a rich household's table, and what they cannot.