Sui-Wai Cheung

Gebundenes Buch

Copper Coins and the Emperor's Wallet

The Role of Currency in Ming China

Beschreibung

In this book, Sui-Wai Cheung unmasks the murky story of copper coins in Ming China, revealing how emperors and statesmen perceived and used the copper coins at their disposal, and exposing the impecunious reality of the Sons of Heaven.

Autor

Sui-Wai Cheung (D. Phil., Oxford) is Professor of History at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has previously published The Price of Rice: Market Integration in Eighteenth-Century China (CEAS, Western Washington University, 2008) and Colonial Administration and Land Reform in East Asia (Routledge, 2017).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: de Gruyter Brill
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 158mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9789004687523
• ISBN-10: 9004687521
• Artikelnr.: 68486347