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
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