The salt merchants of Tianjin. State making and civil society in late Imperial China

by Kwan Man Bun

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First edition

Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2001 . First edition in English, 8vo, pp. viii, 239, 1 ; 4 maps and 1 plan in the text; previous owner's bookplate, inscription in Chinese on front free endpaper possibly authorial ; fine copy in a fine dust jacket. 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 and assumed many civic

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