Yulian Wu: 1 book
Luxurious Networks
Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China. How and why did these businessmen devote themselves to these items? What can we learn about eighteenth-century China by examining the relationship between...
