In this volume Guo Yongqin provides an overview of land and labor taxes in Imperial Qing China (1644-1912). The previously unpublished fiscal sources and detail
This book explores the social economic processes of inequality in nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century rural China. Drawing on uniquely rich source materials
This accessible collection examines twelve historic events in the international relations of East Asia.
This book explores new directions in the study of China’s borderlands. In addition to assessing the influential perspectives of other historians, it engages i
