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Speaking of Yangzhou : a Chinese city, 1550-1850

Finnane, Antonia.
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : 2004.

"The author examines the city's place in the history of the late imperial era, exploring the paradoxes evident in conflicting meanings accruing to Yangzhou over time. She argues that a city famed as a social melting pot actually featured pronounced social divisions along native-place and occupational lines. These divisions were already evident in the early seventeenth century and were sustained until the early nineteenth, when the salt monopoly was in decline, the immigrant merchant community shrinking, and the city as a whole beginning a long, slow retreat into relative obscurity."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Author: Finnane, Antonia.
Publication Year:2004
Language:English
Published:Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Asia Center : 2004.
ISBN:9780674013926
0674013921
0674013921 (alk. paper)
Series:Harvard East Asian monographs ; 236.
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [391]-427) and index.
Course: HIST318

Availability at HKSYU Library


Location Call number Status
English Book (4/F) 951.136 FIN 2004 Available