Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889 by William Rowe
Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889

William Rowe

Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889

William Rowe

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This is the first volume of a two-volume social history of the commercial hub of central China in the nineteenth century. The emphasis here is on the dynamism of late imperial commerce, the relation of the metropolis to the hinterland, and the cor...

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