Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth-Century China

ISBN-13: 9780674983809 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 230 str.

William T. Rowe

Opis

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.