The Salt Merchants of Tianjin: State-Making and Civil Society in Late Imperial China 9780824865009

For nearly four hundred years the Changlu salt merchants played a leading role in the urbanization, commercial developme

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Table of contents :
Contents
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
1. THE CITY
2.THE GABELLE AND BUSINESS
3. the household and the law
4. merchant culture
5. social services
6. changing times
7. SHIFTING POLITICS
8. THE CRASH
EPILOGUE
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author

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