Zinc for coin and brass : : bureaucrats, merchants, artisans, and mining laborers in Qing China, circa 1680s-1830s / / by Hailian Chen.

Hailian Chen’s pioneering study presents the first comprehensive history of Chinese zinc—an essential base metal used to produce brass and coin and a global commodity—over the long eighteenth century. Zinc, she argues, played a far greater role in the Qing economy and in integrating China into an em...

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Place / Publishing House:Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018]
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 11.
Physical Description:1 online resource (822 pages).
Notes:Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Tübingen, 2018.
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