Durham East Asia Strengthen the Country and Enrich the People: The Reform Writings of Ma Jianzhong, (Hardcover)

This collection of essays by Ma Jianzhong, a close adviser to the powerful Qing government official Li Hong-zhang between 1878 and 1890, add to the late nineteenth-century Chinese discourse on the state and the economy, and provides a deeper understanding of the origins and circulation of reform ideas in the late Qing.