State or Merchant: Political Economy and Political Process in 1740s China (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

by HelenDunstan (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $60.37

  What did it mean to run a large, commercialized agrarian polity according to the best Confucian principles? This book is intended as a contribution to both intellectual and political history. It offers a detailed view of members of an ostensibly Confucian government pursuing divergent agendas around the question of state or merchant?