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

by KWAN MAN BUN.

A$30 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

Honolulu. University of Hawaii Press. 2001. Maps, viii + 239pp, index, selected bibliography, notes, glossary, very good hardback copy in dustjacket. "In this the first detailed study in English of the mercantile activities and social role of Tianjin's salt merchants, Kwan Man Bun reveals how they helped stablise the city..... More

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