Print Culture and Media in Late Imperial and Early Republican China

Masculinities in Late Imperial China

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The Rural Market in Late Imperial China

The rural market was an important constituent of marketing system, and formed an un-vertical congruent relationship with urban market in late imperial China. There were different types of rural fair in the imperial China. Xu, Chang, Ji, Dian, Shi, Hui, all of them were the regular fairs. Their number was huge. They distributed widely, played a distinct role, and became the base of rural market ...

Walled Cities in Late Imperial China

For thousands of years, the Chinese and many other nations around the world built defensive walls around their cities. This phenomenon is not well understood from an economic perspective. To rationalize the existence of city walls, we propose a simple model that relates the dimensions of city walls to a set of economic variables. Guided by this model, we conduct an empirical analysis using hand...

“Variolation” and Vaccination in Late Imperial China, Ca 1570–1911

S.A. Plotkin (ed.), History of Vaccine Development, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-1339-5_2, © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 The first reliable record of smallpox in China can be dated to the fifteenth century [1]. By early Song period, around the tenth century, smallpox had become essentially a childhood disease, but it remained one of the most fatal childhood diseases until the nineteenth...

Tales of self empowerment: reconnoitering women's Tanci in late imperial and early twentieth-century China