Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889 0804712042, 9780804712040

This is the first volume of a two-volume social history of the commercial hub of central China in the nineteenth century

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Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889
0804712042, 9780804712040

This second volume of a two-volume social history of Hankow focuses on the people of Hankow, in all their ethnic diversi

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The full dimensions of the medieval Chinese economic revolution are still almost unknown to economic historians in the W

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The scholarly essays offer study-assessments of the changing roles, status, and lives of Chinese women, urban and rural,

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During the eighteenth century, China's new Manchu rulers consolidated their control of the largest empire China had

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During the eighteenth century, China’s new Manchu rulers consolidated their control of the largest empire China had ever

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Chinese associations in Singapore are among the most numerous and heterogenous group of associations of any Chinese comm

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Richard Hu unpacks recent trends in urban planning and development to explore the making and imagining of the contempora

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