Hankow: Commerce and Society in a Chinese City, 1796-1889, by William Rowe

FAIN: RP-20433-83

Stanford University (Stanford, CA 94305-2004)
Grant A. Barnes (Project Director: November 1982 to October 1990)

To support publication of a study of the Chinese city of Hankow in the nineteenth century. The manuscript contains a detailed account of the economic and social organization of this major commercial center just before the full impact of western influence was felt in the interior of China.