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CHAPTER 3 Enamelled Porcelain Consumption in Eighteenth-century China
Map 1 Jiangnan area of Ming and Qing periods.
Source: Li Bozhong, Agricultural Development in Jiangnan, 1620-1850 (New York,
1998), p.xviii.
During the late Ming period, the status of business and commerce was enhanced,
and came to involve people of varying social backgrounds: nobility, officials, gentry
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