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

Zelin, Madeleine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0520078985 ISBN 13: 9780520078987

Publisher: University of California Press, 1992

Synopsis

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 providing an account of the indigenous evolution of the Chinese state. The Magistrate's Tael makes it possible to judge the impact of the West on modern China's development.

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About the Author

Madeleine Zelin is Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.

From the Back Cover

"An extraordinary feat: the best institutional study based on archives ever to have been done in the China field. It will set the standard for a generation of researchers."―Philip A. Kuhn, Harvard University

From the Inside Flap

"An extraordinary feat: the best institutional study based on archives ever to have been done in the China field. It will set the standard for a generation of researchers."—Philip A. Kuhn, Harvard University

Edition details

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520078985
• ISBN 13: 9780520078987
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 403