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      Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China

      William T. Rowe

      Chen Hongmou (1696-1771) was arguably the most influential Chinese official of the eighteenth century. Rowe draws on Chen’s life to discover how Chinese bureaucrats conceived of their role, discovering tensions…

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      Hankow: Conflict and Community in a Chinese City, 1796-1895

      William T. Rowe

      In this second volume of a two-volume social history of Hankow the focus is on the people of Hankow, in all their ethnic diversity, occupational variety, constant mobility, and social…

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      Crimson Rain: Seven Centuries of Violence in a Chinese County

      William T. Rowe

      This book explores the cultural and social roots of violence in China by studying the history of recurrent, massive carnage in one county, Macheng, between the expulsion of the Mongols…

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      Saving the World: Chen Hongmou and Elite Consciousness in Eighteenth-Century China

      William T. Rowe

      Chen Hongmou (1696-1771) was arguably the most influential Chinese official of the eighteenth century. Rowe draws on Chen’s life to discover how Chinese bureaucrats conceived of their role, discovering tensions…

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      Reliving the Past: Worlds of Social History

      Reliving the Past: The Worlds of Social History

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      Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth-Century China

      William T. Rowe

      The Qing Empire in the early nineteenth century faced bureaucratic corruption, food shortages, infrastructure decay, domestic rebellion, adverse balances of trade, and a previously inconceivable foreign threat from the West…

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      Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889

      William T. Rowe

      This is the first volume of a two-volume social history of the commercial hub of central China in the 19th century. The emphasis here is on the dynamism of late…

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      Perspectives on a Changing China: Essays in Honor of Professor C. Martin Wilbur on the Occasion of His Retirement

      These essays on modern Chinese history were contributed exclusively by former students of Columbia University’s Professor C. Martin Wilbur, one of the great names in the China field over the…

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      Perspectives on a Changing China: Essays in Honor of Professor C. Martin Wilbur on the Occasion of His Retirement

      These essays on modern Chinese history were contributed exclusively by former students of Columbia University’s Professor C. Martin Wilbur, one of the great names in the China field over the…

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      China’s Last Empire: The Great Qing

      William T. Rowe

      In a brisk revisionist history, William Rowe challenges the standard narrative of Qing China as a decadent, inward-looking state that failed to keep pace with the modern West. This original…

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      Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China

      This book examines cities of the Jiangnan region of south-central China between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, an area considered to be the model of a successfully developing regional economy…

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      Cities of Jiangnan in Late Imperial China

      This book examines cities of the Jiangnan region of south-central China between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries, an area considered to be the model of a successfully developing regional economy…

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      The Life of Mr. Robert Blair … Containing His Autobiography, With Suppl. by W. Row, Ed. by T. M'crie

      Robert Blair, William Row

      This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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      Fiji and the Fijians, by T. Williams (J. Calvert). Ed. by G.S. Rowe

      Thomas Williams,James Calvert

      This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…

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