Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 456 pages) |
Series |
Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900, 2210-2876 ; Volume 9 |
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Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 ; v. 9.
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Contents |
Front Matter -- Copyright page -- -- Preface / Cao Jin -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Notes on Contributors -- Space and Setting -- Southwest China: Local Conditions and Economic Trajectories / Ulrich Theobald -- Newcomers in the Eighteenth-Century South-West Frontier: An Introduction to the 1784 Huguang Huiguan Records / Fei Huang -- Borders, Ethnicities, Brotherhoods, Provinces: Neglected Aspects of Qing Mining History / John E. Wills (†) Jr. -- Fuel for the Smelters: Copper Mining and Deforestation in Northeastern Yunnan during the High Qing, 1700 to 1850 / Nanny Kim -- Metal and Money -- Legal and Illegal Copper Markets in Eighteenth-Century Hankou / Roger Greatrex -- The Copper Market of Hankou and the Illegal Trade of Yunnan Copper during the Mid-Qing Period* / Yang Yuda -- The Chinese Way of Minting: Comparative Perspectives on Coin Production before Mechanisation / Cao Jin -- Trade and Transport -- Numerical Communication in Intercontinental Trade and Monetary Matters: Coins and Weights in China and East Asia in Merchants' Pocketbooks and Commercial Guides (16th-19th Centuries) / Harald Witthöft -- The Story of the Mayangzi: Shipping and Technological Change in Qing China / Nanny Kim -- The Illegal Trade in Saltpetre in Southern China in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries / Roger Greatrex -- Sichuan as a Pivot: Provincial Politics and Gentry Power in Late Qing Railway Projects in Southwestern China / Elisabeth Kaske -- Yunnanese Transnational Business Firms in the Early Twentieth Century: Xizhou's Yongchangxiang as a Case Study / C. Patterson Giersch |
Summary |
The book Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c. 1600-1911) is dedicated to important issues in society, trade, and local policy in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan during the late phase of the Qing period |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 27, 2018) |
Subject |
Finance -- China, Southwest -- History
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
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Commerce
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Economic history
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Finance
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Social conditions
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SUBJECT |
China, Southwest -- Economic conditions
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China, Southwest -- Social conditions
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China, Southwest -- Commerce -- History
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Subject |
Southwest China
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Theobald, Ulrich, editor
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Cao, Jin, 1982- editor.
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LC no. |
2017054234 |
ISBN |
9789004353718 |
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9004353712 |
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