Hailian Chen (Author)
Hailian Chen's pioneering study presents the first comprehensive history of Chinese zinc--an essential base metal used to produce brass and coin and a global commodity--over the long eighteenth century. Zinc, she argues, played a far greater role in the Qing economy and in integrating China into an emerging global economy, than has previously been recognized. Using commodity chain analysis and exploring over 5,800 items of archival documents, Chen demonstrates how this metal was produced, transported, traded, and consumed by human agents. Situating the zinc story within the human-environment framework, this book covers a broad and interdisciplinary range of political economy, material culture, environment, technology, and society, which casts new light on our understanding of early modern China. (Publisher)
...MoreReview Ernst Homburg (January 2022) Review of "Zinc for coin and brass : Bureaucrats, merchants, artisans, and mining laborers in Qing China, ca. 1680s-1830s". Technology and Culture (pp. 257-259).
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Storia e sorprendenti nuove proprietà farmacologiche dello zinco
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Globalized Science. The 1970s Futures Field
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A Manchu Manuscript on Arithmetic Owned by Tôyô Bunko: “suwan fa yuwan ben bithe”
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Tsing Tsing Crystal Luk;
(2017)
A Study on Daoist's Medical Scripture Yi-dao Huan-yuan in the Qing: The Relationship Between Daoism and Traditional Chinese Medicine from Theories of Healing to Neidan Practice
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Introduction and Spread of Pumpkin and Their Influence in the Southeast Coastal Areas of China
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(2006)
An Investigation on the Suanxue Keyi in the Late Qing Dynasty
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Xueshun Liu;
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A Thorough Collation of Astronomical Records in the Twenty-Five Histories of China
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Blurring the Boundaries: Integrating Techniques of Land Surveying on the Qing’s Mongolian Frontier
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Nanny Kim;
(2019)
Texts and Technologies in Chinese Silver Metallurgy, Twelfth to Nineteenth Centuries
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Jami, Catherine;
(2012)
The Emperor's New Mathematics: Western Learning and Imperial Authority during the Kangxi Reign (1662--1722)
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Chinese Hereditary Mathematician Families of the Astronomical Bureau, 1620–1850
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(2017)
Knowledge by Design—Architecture and Jade Models During the Qianlong 乾隆 Reign (1735–1796)
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(2020)
The Profits of Nature: Colonial Development and the Quest for Resources in Nineteenth-Century China
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(2018)
China's Philological Turn: Scholars, Textualism, and the Dao in the Eighteenth Century
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(2021)
Transforming Inner Mongolia : Commerce, migration, and colonization on the Qing frontier
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Caroline Humphrey;
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Mongolian map-making as practice
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A Forgotten Friendship: How a French Missionary and a Manchu Prince Studied Electricity and Ballooning in Late Eighteenth Century Beijing
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(2015)
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Wang, Guangchao;
(2013)
A Preliminary Study of Wuli Yijie Edited by Chen Huang
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Deng, Liang;
(2011)
Some Questions on the Transmission of Chemical Elements in Late Qing China
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