Consumption in Late Imperial China: an Early Modern Phenomenon?

中国目前的经济增长和消费活动对澳大利亚有直接的利益。对前几个世纪消费者活动的研究将有助于揭示中国消费在长期全球化时代的变化和延续。该项目将为澳大利亚的中国和世界历史研究做出贡献，增强当地和全球对中国历史的理解，并丰富想象中国的方式。

China's present economic growth and consumer activity are of immediate interest to Australia. This study of consumer activities in earlier centuries will shed light on changes as well as continuities in Chinese consumption in a long era of globalization. The project will contribute to the corpus of Australian scholarship on Chinese and world history, enhancing local and global understandings of China's past, and enriching ways in which it is imagined.