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

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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Chen, Hailian,
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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Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Copyright page
  • Dedication
  • Foreword / Hans Ulrich Vogel and George Bryan Souza
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • Tables
  • Figures
  • Spelling and Place Names
  • Abbreviations Used in Texts and Notes
  • Weights, Measures, and Currency
  • Introduction
  • Place, Space, and People
  • Zinc: China’s Demand for a “Useless” Metal
  • Entrepreneurs: The Qing State and Merchants
  • Mining Policy, Law, and Practices
  • Mining Communities
  • Zinc Ores: Calamine and Blende
  • Zinc Mines
  • Technology
  • Output: Guizhou’s Global Pre-eminence in Zinc Production
  • Energy
  • Transportation, and Commercialization and Consumption
  • Conclusion
  • Back Matter
  • Bibliography.

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