Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China
Online ISBN:
9781503600799
Print ISBN:
9780804798112
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Book
Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China
Published online:
21 September 2017
Published in print:
4 January 2017
Online ISBN:
9781503600799
Print ISBN:
9780804798112
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
Cite
Wu, Yulian, Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China (Redwood City, CA , 2017; online edn, Stanford Scholarship Online, 21 Sept. 2017), https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804798112.001.0001, accessed 13 May 2025.
Abstract
This book explores the transformation of Huizhou salt merchants’ social and political status in eighteenth-century China. These merchants left their homes in the remote countryside of Huizhou, conducting business and sojourning in the most prosperous part of the Qing empire (1644-1911), the Lower Yangzi valley. Benefiting from the new salt monopoly policies instituted by Manchu emperors, they became one of the wealthiest merchant groups of the High Qing period (1683-1839).
Keywords:
salt merchants, material culture, Qianlong emperor, Qing dynasty, court, Lower Yangzi valley, Huizhou, Manchu, luxury consumption, salt monopoly
Subject
Asian History
Contents
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Front Matter
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Introduction
Merchant Culture in the Material World of Eighteenth-Century China
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Part One A New Regime: The Manchu Court and Salt Merchants
Yulian Wu -
Part Two Finding Things in Jiangnan
Yulian Wu -
Part Three Making Things in Huizhou
Yulian Wu -
End Matter
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