The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-century Chʻing China by Madeleine Zelin
The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-century Chʻing China
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Madeleine Zelin
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The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth-century Chʻing China

Madeleine Zelin

392 pages • first pub 1984 (view editions)

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Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the...

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