Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 – serie
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Economic Thought in Early Modern Japan
Inbunden, 2010
2673 kr
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This volume explores early-modern formations of economic thought and policy in a country widely regarded as having followed a unique, non-Western path to capitalism. In discussing such topics as money and the state, freedom and control, national interest ideology, shogunal politics and networks, …
Marco Polo Was in China
New Evidence from Currencies, Salts and Revenues
Inbunden, 2012
4257 kr
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In Marco Polo was in China Hans Ulrich Vogel offers an innovative look at the highly complex topics of currencies, salt production and taxes, commercial levies and other kinds of revenue as well as the administrative geography of the Mongol Yuan empire. The author’s rigorous analysis of Chinese …
Mining, Monies, and Culture in Early Modern Societies
East Asian and Global Perspectives
Av Nanny Kim
Inbunden, 2013
2942 kr
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Mining, Monies, and Culture in Early Modern Societies explores substantial and methodological issues in the early modern history of mining for monetary metals and monies of Japan, China, and Europe. The largest group in the thirteen articles presents empirical research on mining, metallurgy, and …
Gold and Jade Filled Halls: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Financial and Economic Expressions in Chinese and German
Inbunden, 2013
2114 kr
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In Gold and Jade Filled Halls: A Cognitive Linguistic Study of Financial and Economic Expressions in Chinese and German Shelley Ching-yu Hsieh offers an account of how we use financial linguistic expressions every day. They include various linguistic vehicles and cultural models that are related to …
War Finance and Logistics in Late Imperial China
A Study of the Second Jinchuan Campaign (1771–1776)
Inbunden, 2013
2338 kr
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In his book War Finance and Logistics in Late Imperial China, Ulrich Theobald shows how the Qing dynasty (1644 – 1911) overcame the tyranny of logistics and successfully enlarged the territory of its empire. A detailed analysis of the long and expensive second Jinchuan war (1771 – 1776) in Eastern …
Money in Asia (1200 – 1900): Small Currencies in Social and Political Contexts
Inbunden, 2015
4083 kr
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Money in Asia examines two chronic problems that faced early modern monetary economies in East, South, and Southeast Asia: The inability to provide sufficient amounts of small currencies to facilitate local economic transactions and to control currency depreciation. The studies in this volume …
Copper in the Early Modern Sino-Japanese Trade
Inbunden, 2015
2148 kr
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This volume sheds light on the important role of copper in early modern Sino-Japanese trade. By examining the demand for copper and the policy on copper procurement in Japan and China as well as the role of Osaka merchant houses, this volume provides a new slant on the “life” of Japanese copper – …
Southwest China in a Regional and Global Perspective (c.1600-1911)
Metals, Transport, Trade and Society
Inbunden, 2018
3090 kr
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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. It combines the methods of various disciplines to …
Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China
Av Fei HUANG
Inbunden, 2018
1667 kr
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In Reshaping the Frontier Landscape: Dongchuan in Eighteenth-century Southwest China, Fei HUANG examines the process of reshaping the landscape of Dongchuan, a remote frontier city in Southwest China in the eighteenth century. Rich copper deposits transformed Dongchuan into one of the key outposts …
Zinc for Coin and Brass
Bureaucrats, Merchants, Artisans, and Mining Laborers in Qing China, ca. 1680s–1830s
Av Hailian Chen
Inbunden, 2018
4204 kr
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Hailian Chen’s pioneering study presents the first comprehensive history of Chinese zinc—an essential base metal used to produce brass and coin and a global commodity—over the long eighteenth century. Zinc, she argues, played a far greater role in the Qing economy and in integrating China into an …
