The origin of likin 1853-1864

by Edwin George Beal, Jr.

$25 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958. 4to, pp. 8 , 201, 1 ; typescript text, gray still card backed in red cloth, owner's signature of Mark Selden on title page, near fine. Originally published as a dissertation in 1948, it was republished as the farthest point of progress in the Western study of the origin of the likin revenue system. Likin is a former Chinese provincial tax at inland stations on imports or articles in transit. Item #63278

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