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The Salt Merchants of Tianjin: State-Making and Civil Society in Late Imperial China. By Kwan Man Bun. [Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press, 2001. viii+239 pp. $42.00. ISBN 0-8248-2275-7.]

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2002

Chang-tai Hung
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Salt merchants, despite their critical role in the traditional Chinese economy, have largely been ignored by historians. Indeed, Ping-ti Ho's pioneering article on the Yangzhou salt merchants was published nearly 50 years ago. With The Salt Merchants of Tianjin – a revision of his 1999 Chinese book – Kwan Man Bun intends to help fill this gap.

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The China Quarterly , Volume 170 , June 2002 , pp. 477 - 502
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© The China Quarterly, 2002

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