Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth-Century China

by William T. Rowe

In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the "prosperous age" of the eighteenth century was over. Bureaucratic corruption and malaise, population pressure and food shortages, ecological and infrastructural decay, domestic and frontier rebellion, adverse balances of trade, and, eventually, a previously inconceivable foreign threat from the West seemed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674983807
• ISBN13: 9780674983809
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.1"