Zinc for coin and brass : bureaucrats, merchants, artisans, and mining laborers in Qing China, ca. 1680s-1830s
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Zinc for coin and brass : bureaucrats, merchants, artisans, and mining laborers in Qing China, ca. 1680s-1830s
（Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900, v. 11）
Brill, c2019
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Revision of author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Tübingen, 2018
Includes bibliographical references (p. [677]-728) and indexes
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Hailian Chen's pioneering study presents the first comprehensive history of Chinese zinc-an essential base metal used to produce brass and coin and a global commodity-over the long eighteenth century. Zinc, she argues, played a far greater role in the Qing economy and in integrating China into an emerging global economy, than has previously been recognized. Using commodity chain analysis and exploring over 5,800 items of archival documents, Chen demonstrates how this metal was produced, transported, traded, and consumed by human agents. Situating the zinc story within the human-environment framework, this book covers a broad and interdisciplinary range of political economy, material culture, environment, technology, and society, which casts new light on our understanding of early modern China.
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