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Marco Polo was in China : new evidence from currencies, salts and revenues
- Title
- Marco Polo was in China : new evidence from currencies, salts and revenues / by Hans Ulrich Vogel.
- Author
- Vogel, Hans Ulrich.
- Publication
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
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- Description
- xxxii, 643 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- Hans Ulrich Vogel offers an innovative look at the highly complex topics of currencies, salt production and taxes, commercial levies and other kinds of revenue as well as the administrative geography of the Mongol Yuan empire. The author's rigorous analysis of Chinese sources and all the important Marco Polo manuscripts as well as his thorough scrutiny of Japanese, Chinese and Western scholarship show that the fascinating information contained in Le devisament dou monde agrees almost pefectly with that we find in Chinese sources, the latter only available long after Marco Polo's stay in China. Hence, the author concludes that, despite the doubts that have been raised, the Venetian was indeed in Khubilai Khan's realm. -- Publisher.
- Series Statement
- Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900, 2210-2876 ; v. 2
- Uniform Title
- Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 ; v. 2.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-627) and index.
- Contents
- I. Introduction -- II. Paper money in Yuan China -- III. Cowry monies circulating in Yunnan and Southeast Asia -- IV. Salt production and salt monies in Yunnan and Tebet -- V. Production, revenue and trade of salt in Changlu -- VI. Tax revenue of Hangzhou and its territory -- VII. Administrative-geographical divisions in Yuan China -- VIII. Conclusions.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-2471
- ISBN
- 9789004231931
- 9004231935
- 9789004236981
- 9004236988
- LCCN
- 2012035046
- 99952257248
- OCLC
- 810773046
- Author
- Vogel, Hans Ulrich.
- Title
- Marco Polo was in China : new evidence from currencies, salts and revenues / by Hans Ulrich Vogel.
- Imprint
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Type of Content
- textstill imagecartographic image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900, 2210-2876 ; v. 2Monies, markets, and finance in East Asia, 1600-1900 ; v. 2.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 547-627) and index.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 99952257248
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-2471