Salt in Chinese history including salt production and salt taxes played key roles in economic development, and relations between state and society in...
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bearing salt to inland markets in the Sahel, sometimes trading salt for slaves: Timbuktu was a noted salt and slave market. Salt in Chinese history was both...
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Dynasty, Chinese craftsmen had invented special tools for digging small-mouth-diameter wells Mark Kurlansky (18 March 2011). Salt: A World History. Random...
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they excavated rock salt. The Chinese writer, poet, and politician Zhang Hua of the Jin dynasty wrote in his book Bowuzhi how people in Zigong, Sichuan,...
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of China Economy of Taiwan Economy of Tibet Salt in Chinese history Taxation in premodern China Four occupations Comprador Adam Smith thought China had...
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in China. Chinese governments have held a legal monopoly on salt production since 119 BCE and began iodizing salt in the 1960s, but market reforms in...
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called table salt. In the form of a natural crystalline mineral, salt is also known as rock salt or halite. Salt is essential for life in general, and...
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Zigong Salt History Museum (Chinese: 自贡市盐业历史博物馆) is a museum in Zigong, Sichuan Province, Southwest China. It is housed in the Xiqin Guildhall (Chinese: 西秦会馆)...
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The history of China spans several millennia across a wide geographical area. Each region now considered part of the Chinese world has experienced periods...
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Salt and Iron (Chinese: 鹽鐵論; pinyin: Yán Tiě Lùn) was a debate held at the imperial court in 81 BCE on state policy during the Han dynasty in China....
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