The salt merchants of Tianjin. State making and civil society in late Imperial China
Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, [2001]. First edition in English, 8vo, pp. viii, 239, [1]; 4 maps and 1 plan in the text; previous owner's bookplate, inscription in Chinese on front free endpaper (possibly authorial); fine copy in a fine dust jacket. "In this the first detailed study in English..... More