CAO Jin, (Ph.D. 2012) is a post-doctoral researcher in the field of Chinese studies at Tübingen University, Germany, and Peking University. Her scholarship focuses on questions of social and economic history as well as on the history of science and technology in late Imperial China.Ulrich Theobald, (Ph.D. 2009) is Senior Lecturer for Chinese Studies at Tübingen University. He has published on military labour, war finance and logistics, monetary history, and border peoples. He currently works on changes in the appointment of local officials in 19th-century China.

• ContentsPrefaceList of FiguresList of MapsList of TablesNotes on ContributorsPart 1: Space and Setting1 Southwest China: Local Conditions and Economic TrajectoriesUlrich Theobald2 Newcomers in the Eighteenth-Century South-West Frontier: An Introduction to the 1784 Huguang Huiguan RecordsFei Huang3 Borders, Ethnicities, Brotherhoods, Provinces: Neglected Aspects of Qing Mining HistoryJohn E. Wills, Jr. (†)4 Fuel for the Smelters: Copper Mining and Deforestation in Northeastern Yunnan during the High Qing, 1700 to 1850Nanny KimPart 2: Metal and Money5 Legal and Illegal Copper Markets in Eighteenth-Century HankouRoger Greatrex6 The Copper Market of Hankou and the Illegal Trade of Yunnan Copper in the Mid-Qing PeriodYang Yuda7 The Chinese Way of Minting: Comparative Perspectives on Coin Production before MechanisationCao JinPart 3: Trade and Transport8 Numeric Communication in Intercontinental Trade and Monetary Matters: Coins, Weights and Measures in China and East-Asia in Merchants’ Pocketbooks and Commercial Guides (16th–19th Centuries)Harald Witthöft9 The Story of the Mayangzi: Shipping and Technological Change in Qing ChinaNanny Kim10 The Illegal Trade in Saltpetre in Southern China in the Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth CenturiesRoger Greatrex11 Sichuan as a Pivot: Provincial Politics and Gentry Power in Late Qing Railway Projects in Southwestern ChinaElisabeth Kaske12 Yunnanese Transnational Business Firms in the Early Twentieth Century: Xizhou’s Yongchangxiang as a Case StudyC. Pat GierschIndex