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

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: William T. Rowe, Rowe William T.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780674983809
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98380-9
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series; Harvard-Yenching Institute Mon; Harvard-Yenching Institute Monograph Series; Harvard-Yenching Institute Mon
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Political, Biography: historical, political & military, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, HISTORY / Asia / General, Economic history, Political science & theory, Popular economics, Asian History, Political science and theory, Biography: historical, political and military