Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth-Century China
Publisher:
Harvard University Press
Publication:
2/2018
Languages:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN/SKU:
9780674983809
Pages:
230
Sizes:
229 x 159mm
Weight:
0.4560
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The Qing Empire in the early nineteenth century faced bureaucratic corruption, food shortages, infrastructure decay, domestic rebellion, adverse balances of trade, and a previously inconceivable foreign threat from the West. William T. Rowe uses literati reformer Bao Shichen as a prism to understand contemporary response to this general crisis.