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Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China
Yulian Wu
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Description for Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China
Hardcover. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JF; ACBP; HBJF; HBTB; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 567.
From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China. How and why did these businessmen devote themselves to these items? What can we learn about eighteenth-century China by examining the relationship between merchants and objects? Luxurious Networks examines Huizhou salt merchants in the material world of High Qing China to reveal a dynamic interaction between people and objects. The Qianlong emperor purposely used objects to expand his influence in economic and cultural fields. Thanks to their broad networks, outstanding managerial skills, and abundant financial ... Read more
From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China. How and why did these businessmen devote themselves to these items? What can we learn about eighteenth-century China by examining the relationship between merchants and objects? Luxurious Networks examines Huizhou salt merchants in the material world of High Qing China to reveal a dynamic interaction between people and objects. The Qianlong emperor purposely used objects to expand his influence in economic and cultural fields. Thanks to their broad networks, outstanding managerial skills, and abundant financial ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Stanford University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
566g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804798112
SKU
V9780804798112
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About Yulian Wu
Yulian Wu is Assistant Professor of History at the University of South Carolina.
Reviews for Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China
Luxurious Networks is a paragon of interdisciplinary scholarship, filled with insights into the political and material cultures of eighteenth-century China. Challenging conventional views of Huizhou's salt merchants as mere literati manques, Yulian Wu elucidates their centrality in the historical processes of network formation through which Qing rule was constituted. -Michael Chang, George Mason University This innovative and richly detailed ... Read more