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The Traditional Chinese Iron Industry and its Modern Fate
Surrey, Curzon Press, 1997. 1 volume in-8, 106 pp., paperback, illustrated cover, cover shows a folded line, enriched with 29 figures in texte, good condition.
The State and the Iron Industry in Han China
Copenhagen, NIAS Publishing, 2001. 1 volume in-8, 148 pp., paperback, illustrated covers, one Chinese stamp on the title page, enriched with 20 figures, 2 text boxes and 2 tables in texte, very good condition.
Table of Contents: Introduction - Outline history of the monopoly - Dicourses on salt and iron - The administration of the iron monopoly - Reasons for the monopoly, reasons for opposition - The technology of the Iron Offices - 7. Conclusing remarks - Tables 1-2 - References - Index.
Dabieshan - Traditional Chinese iron-production techniques practised in southern Henan in the twentieth century
London and Malmö, Curzon Press Ltd, 1985. 1 volume in-8, 112 pp., library hardback, a Chinese stamp on the title page, library labels on the cover with library documents on end pages, good condition.
Contents: Preface - Sources on the iron industry of southern Henan - Traditional iron-production techniques of southern Henan - Ironsand - Forestry and charcoal production - Blast furnaces - Refining furnances - Notes - Chinese characters - References and abbreviations - Index.
Science and Civilisation in China: Volume V: 11
UK, Cambridge University Press, 2008. 1 volume, hard-cover with illustrated dust jacket, in-4, xxxiii+477 pp., 48 plates, 139 figures, 4 tables, 14 text boxes, very good copy.
Contents: Introduction - Introductory orientations: the traditional Chinese iron industry in recent centuries - The earliest use of iron in China - The flourishing iron industry of the -3rd and -2nd centuries - The Han state monopoly of the iron industry - The arts of the smith from late Han through Tang - Techincal evolution and economic revolution in the Song period - Economic expansion in the Ming period - Some Chinese contributions to modern siderurgical technology - Epilogue - Bibliography - Index - Table of Chinese periods and dynasties.
