Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status, and Statecraft in Eighteenth-Century China

by Yulian Wu

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 merchants and objects?

Luxurious Networks examines Huizhou salt merchants in the material world of High Qing China to reveal a dynamic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804798117
• ISBN13: 9780804798112
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"