HIS280Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Yuan Mei, Poetry Slam, Cao Xueqin
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The high qing: high qing as universal empire ". The last, the most recent dynastic regimeknown for: By 1800, around 300 million ppl living in high qing empire. Unprecedented success at moving stuff (i. e. army supplies) and messages across vast expenses. Control over prices, so state can respond quickly in cases like famine. In a more confucian state, they swoop in to take care of things paternalistically. Govn. responds with sending out surveys to figure out who were the victims, distributing aid and food accordingly. State would invite (really forced) salt merchants to collapse into a state monopoly. Most these merchants came from yangzi-delta area. Co-opting em was also a way to keep tabs on peoples" sentiments in those areas. 1753: salt monopoly revenue = of state revenue. Monuments, with your family name on it, built with bursary $ from high qing state.
