Survival Dependent on Nature: the Relationship of Famine and Commodity Market in Late Ming Dynasty

A huge social crisis lurked behind the booming commodity economy in late Ming dynasty.South,Central,North and other regions in China formed a more significant regional and industrial division of labor by convenient waters.However,the long-range dislocation between production and sale caused this highly prosperous economies to become extremely vulnerable,once a favorable external environment changed,which would quickly collapse the situation.large-scale natural disasters of successive years in late Ming dynasty just hit its fragile nerves,and the entire economic system entered a climate change-driven adjustments.