Chinese Society in the Eighteenth Century

by Susan Naquin

Book Overview

During the eighteenth century, China's new Manchu rulers consolidated their control of the largest empire China had ever known. In this book Susan Naquin and Evelyn S. Rawski draw on the most recent research to provide a unique overview and reevaluation of the social history of China during this period--one of the most dynamic periods in China's early modern era.
"A lucid, original, and scholarly summary of the social, economic, and demographic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300046022
• ISBN13: 9780300046021
• Release Date: September 1989
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 2.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"