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Zinc for Coin and Brass - Bureaucrats, Merchants, Artisans, and Mining Laborers in Qing China, ca. 1680s-1830s (Hardcover)
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Zinc for Coin and Brass - Bureaucrats, Merchants, Artisans, and Mining Laborers in Qing China, ca. 1680s-1830s (Hardcover)
Series: Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900, 11
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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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