This book brings both literary and archaeological evidence to bear in an investigation of the history of the Han state's iron monopoly, and considers the reason

"This book examines the rise of the iron industry during the Warring States and Western Han periods (ca. 400 BCE- 9 CE) in ancient China, which is characterized

This book explores the economic history of the traditional Chinese iron industry in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with particular emphasis on the inte

A study of the production and use of iron and steel in early China, and simultaneously a methodological study of the reconciliation of archaeological and writte