China Upside Down: Currency, Society and Ideologies, 1808-1856 (Harvard East Asian Monographs)

by Man -houng Lin (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $54.49

  Many scholars have noted the role of China's demand for silver in the emergence of the modern world. This book discusses the interaction of this demand and the early-19th Century Latin American independence movements, the resulting disruptions in the Qing dynasty, and the transformation from the High Qing to modern China.