The UVA East Asia Center and Corcoran Department of History will be joined by George Zhijian Qiao, assistant professor of History and Asian Languages and Civilizations at Amherst College, for a talk on "The Significance of the Frontier Trade in Early Modern China."
This talk outlines the development of long-distance trade in China's northern frontier regions in the Qing era (1644-1912). The expansion of the Qing empire created the conditions for Chinese commercial penetration of Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang for the first time in history.
The second talk in our Late Imperial China series, the event is free and open to the public, and will be held Friday, April 5, from 3:15 - 4:30 pm in Gibson 211.
