{"product_id":"southwest-china-in-a-regional-and-global-perspective-c-1600-1911-metals-transport-trade-and-society-9789004353633","title":"Southwest China in a Regional and Global Perspective (c.1600-1911): Metals, Transport, Trade and Society","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c. 1600-1911) is dedicated to important issues in society, trade, and local policy in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan during the late phase of the Qing period. It combines the methods of various disciplines to bring more light into the neglected history of a region that witnessed a faster population growth than any other region in China during that age. The contributions to the volume analyse conflicts and arrangements in immigrant societies, problems of environmental change, the economic significance of copper as the most important “export” product, topographical and legal obstacles in trade and transport, specific problems in inter-regional trade, and the roots of modern transnational enterprise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents Preface List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Notes on Contributors  Part 1: Space and Setting  1 Southwest China: Local Conditions and Economic Trajectories  Ulrich Theobald  2 Newcomers in the Eighteenth-Century South-West Frontier:  An Introduction to the 1784 Huguang Huiguan Records  Fei Huang  3 Borders, Ethnicities, Brotherhoods, Provinces: Neglected Aspects of Qing Mining History  John E. Wills, Jr. (†)  4 Fuel for the Smelters: Copper Mining and Deforestation in Northeastern Yunnan during the High Qing, 1700 to 1850  Nanny Kim  Part 2: Metal and Money  5 Legal and Illegal Copper Markets in Eighteenth-Century Hankou  Roger Greatrex  6 The Copper Market of Hankou and the Illegal Trade of Yunnan Copper in the Mid-Qing Period  Yang Yuda  7 The Chinese Way of Minting: Comparative Perspectives on Coin Production before Mechanisation  Cao Jin  Part 3: Trade and Transport  8 Numeric Communication in Intercontinental Trade and Monetary Matters: Coins, Weights and Measures in China and East-Asia  in Merchants’ Pocketbooks and Commercial Guides  (16th–19th Centuries)  Harald Witthöft  9 The Story of the Mayangzi: Shipping and Technological Change in Qing China  Nanny Kim  10 The Illegal Trade in Saltpetre in Southern China in the Eighteenth  and Early-Nineteenth Centuries  Roger Greatrex  11 Sichuan as a Pivot: Provincial Politics and Gentry Power in Late Qing Railway Projects in Southwestern China  Elisabeth Kaske  12 Yunnanese Transnational Business Firms in the Early Twentieth Century: Xizhou’s Yongchangxiang as a Case Study  C. Pat Giersch  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210738884951,"sku":"9789004353633","price":166.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/southwest-china-in-a-regional-and-global-perspective-c-1600-1911-metals-transport-trade-and-society-9789004353633","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}