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Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China

Online ISBN:
9781503600799
Print ISBN:
9780804798112
Publisher:
Stanford University Press
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Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China

Yulian Wu
Yulian Wu
University of South Carolina
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Published online:
21 September 2017
Published in print:
4 January 2017
Online ISBN:
9781503600799
Print ISBN:
9780804798112
Publisher:
Stanford University Press

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).

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