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

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By (author): William T. Rowe

In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the prosperous age of the eighteenth century was over. Bureaucratic corruption and malaise, population pressure and food shortages, ecological and infrastructural decay, domestic and frontier rebellion, adverse balances of trade, and, eventually, a previously inconceivable foreign threat from the West seemed to present hopelessly daunting challenges.

This study uses the literati reformer Bao Shichen as a prism to understand contemporary perceptions of and proposed solutions to this general crisis. Though Bao only briefly and inconsequentially served in office himself, he was widely recognized as an expert on each of these matters, and his advice was regularly sought by reform-minded administrators. From examination of his thought on bureaucratic and fiscal restructuring, agricultural improvement, the grain tribute administration, the salt monopoly, monetary policy, and foreign relations, Bao emerges as a consistent advocate of the hard-nosed pursuit of material profit, in the interests not only of the rural populace but also of the Chinese state and nation, anticipating the arguments of self-strengthening reformers later in the century.

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  • Dimensions: 229 x 152mm
  • Publication Date: 08 Jan 2018
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780674983809

About William T. Rowe

William T. Rowe is John and Diane Cooke Professor of Chinese History in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University.

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