The Magistrate's Tael: Rationalizing Fiscal Reform in Eighteenth Century Ch'ing China

by Madeleine Zelin

Book Overview

Madeleine Zelin shatters the image of China as a backward empire wracked by corruption and economic stagnation, thrust into the modern world when the western gunboats arrived in the 1840s, by... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520078985
• ISBN13: 9780520078987
• Release Date: March 1992
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 403 Pages
• Weight: 1.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"