... Boats of Yangzhou Yangzhou huafang lu rocks Tai Lake status social of salt merchants urban areas and culture Wang Yushu court imperial craftsmen markets Wang Qishu Xu Chengyao zitan wood Appadurai Arjun material culture study of Hoskins Janet Zeitlin Judith Bao lineage common people...

... merchants Qianlong emperor Huizhou network salt monopoly material culture luxury consumption ethnicity Upon adulthood, [Shen Dacheng] travelled half the world (zu zong ban tianxia), and befriended cultured and cosmopolitan men and learned Confucians (tongren juru...

... urbanity, politicizations of domesticity in public debates, and changing consumption patterns. Engaging with postcolonial theory, works on material culture, and consumption and gender studies, the book uses the notion of taste in both its aesthetic and political sense to critique the idea...