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

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In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the "prosperous age" of the eighteenth century was over. Bureaucratic corruption and malaise, population pressure and food shortages, ecological and infrastructural decay, domestic and frontier rebellion, adverse balances of trade, and, eventually, a previously inconceivable foreign threat from the West seemed...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0674983807

ISBN13:9780674983809

Release Date:January 2018

Publisher:Harvard University Press

Length:230 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"

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Business Business & Investing History Political Science Politics & Social Sciences

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

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