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105William Skinner's macroregional approach to Chinese studies has been a remarkable theoretical strategy to break up the giant Chinese empire into tangible units for the purpose of analysis.

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110While the case of Yun-Gui challenges Skinner's macroregional approach, which seems unable to reveal the "urbanization and regional formation, especially social and cultural practices, long-distance trade, and associated activities," as Carolyn Cartier argues,218 Hans Ulrich Vogel's study on the long-term exchange rate between copper cash and silver referred to the possibility of a national money market in the Qing period.

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216 He largely ignores international trade and the commercialization emphasized by Chiranan Prasertkul, and the cross-macroregional immigration, commercialization, and state-sponsored mining industry stressed by James Lee.

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