Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status and Statecraft in Eighteenth Century China. By Wu Yulian. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. $65.00. - Living the Good Life: Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Elif Akçetin and Suraiya Faroqhi. Leiden: Brill, 2018. $180.00.

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Luxurious Networks: Salt Merchants, Status and Statecraft in Eighteenth Century China. By Wu Yulian. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. $65.00. - Living the Good Life: Consumption in the Qing and Ottoman Empires of the Eighteenth Century. Edited by Elif Akçetin and Suraiya Faroqhi. Leiden: Brill, 2018. $180.00.