Luxurious networks : salt merchants, status, and statecraft in eighteenth-century China /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wu, Yulian (Historian) (Author)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1413670
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : merchant culture in the material world of eighteenth-century China
  • Courting the court
  • Furnishing the court
  • Collecting as a "collector"
  • Luxury and lineage
  • Materializing morality
  • Conclusion : cultured and cosmopolitan men (tongren) : objects, merchants, and the Manchu court in High Qing China.