Stanford, California: Stanford University, 1984. First Edition (presumed; no prior editions or printings cited). Octavo in black boards, giilt title to spine; 436 pp; 24 cm Good(+) to very good(-), light fading & rubbing to boards; slight cock to textblock, pages are crisp and clean. Hardcover.A" social history of nineteenth-century Hankow, a city of over one million inhabitants and the commercial hub of central China. In the first volume, Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889 (1984), the author emphasized the dynamism of late imperial commerce, the relation of the metropolis to its hinterland, and the corporate institutions of the city, notably its guilds, which assumed a number of functions we normally attribute to a municipal government" --Publisher
