This engrossing popular history makes many intriguing connections between precious metals like gold and silver as sources of economic wealth and the rise of emp

Reprint. Originally published: Council of East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1977.

From the founding of the Ming dynasty in 1368 to the start of the Opium Wars in 1841, China has engaged in only two large-scale conflicts with its principal nei

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