The order of places : translocal practices of the Huizhou merchants in late imperial China / by Yongtao Du.

"There were over a thousand counties and prefectures in late imperial China; each loomed large in the hearts and minds of the local natives, and had a history of its own. The Order of Places tells a story of how these places were ordered by the long-lived imperial state, and then re-ordered dur...

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