The Global in the Local : : A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China / / Xin Zhang.
The story of globalization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as experienced by ordinary people in the Chinese river town of Zhenjiang.Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842. Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard...
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Zhang, Xin, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Global in the Local : A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China / Xin Zhang. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (224 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL CHANGES IN CHINA -- PART ONE. WAR AS A NEGATIVE FORM OF LIAISON -- Introduction -- 1 Place, History, and People -- 2 The Battle of Zhenjiang -- 3 The Invader and the Invaded -- PART TWO. COMMERCIAL NETWORKS AND TRANSREGIONAL TRADE -- Introduction -- 4 The Nineteenth-Century Transformation -- 5 Brokering Multiple Commercial Networks -- 6 The Shanghai Commercial Network -- PART THREE. NEGOTIATING TECHNOLOGY -- Introduction -- 7 Steam Navigation as a Means of Dominance -- 8 The Role of the Steamboat -- 9 Foreign Technology and Local Society -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ARCHIVES AND PRIMARY SOURCES -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The story of globalization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as experienced by ordinary people in the Chinese river town of Zhenjiang.Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842. Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard of the suffering the British inflicted two months earlier, in Zhapu. A wave of suicides and mercy killings ensued: rather than leave their families to the invaders, hundreds of women killed themselves and their children or died at the hands of male family members. British observers decried an “Asian culture” of ritual suicide. In reality, the event was sui generis—a tragic result of colliding local and global forces in nineteenth-century China.Xin Zhang’s groundbreaking history examines the intense negotiations between local societies and global changes that created modern China. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, world-historic political, economic, and technological developments transformed the textures of everyday life in places like Zhenjiang, a midsize river town in China’s prosperous Lower Yangzi region. Drawing on rare primary sources, including handwritten diaries and other personal writings, Zhang offers a ground-level view of globalization in the city. We see civilians coping with the traumatic international encounters of the Opium War; Zhenjiang brokers bankrolling Shanghai’s ascendance as a cosmopolitan commercial hub; and merchants shipping goods to market, for the first time, on steamships.Far from passive recipients, the Chinese leveraged, resisted, and made change for themselves. Indeed, The Global in the Local argues that globalization is inevitably refracted through local particularities. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) HISTORY / Asia / China. bisacsh banks. beijing. brokers. commodities. east west relations. exchange. hankou. imperialism. india. japan. maritime. nanjing. networks. private companies. qing dynasty. railroad. rice. silk. steamboat. trade. transportation. treaty port. urban. yangtze. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English 9783111319131 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 9783111318189 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110749700 print 9780674278387 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674293137?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674293137 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674293137/original |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL CHANGES IN CHINA -- PART ONE. WAR AS A NEGATIVE FORM OF LIAISON -- Introduction -- 1 Place, History, and People -- 2 The Battle of Zhenjiang -- 3 The Invader and the Invaded -- PART TWO. COMMERCIAL NETWORKS AND TRANSREGIONAL TRADE -- 4 The Nineteenth-Century Transformation -- 5 Brokering Multiple Commercial Networks -- 6 The Shanghai Commercial Network -- PART THREE. NEGOTIATING TECHNOLOGY -- 7 Steam Navigation as a Means of Dominance -- 8 The Role of the Steamboat -- 9 Foreign Technology and Local Society -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ARCHIVES AND PRIMARY SOURCES -- INDEX |
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL CHANGES IN CHINA -- PART ONE. WAR AS A NEGATIVE FORM OF LIAISON -- Introduction -- 1 Place, History, and People -- 2 The Battle of Zhenjiang -- 3 The Invader and the Invaded -- PART TWO. COMMERCIAL NETWORKS AND TRANSREGIONAL TRADE -- 4 The Nineteenth-Century Transformation -- 5 Brokering Multiple Commercial Networks -- 6 The Shanghai Commercial Network -- PART THREE. NEGOTIATING TECHNOLOGY -- 7 Steam Navigation as a Means of Dominance -- 8 The Role of the Steamboat -- 9 Foreign Technology and Local Society -- Conclusion -- NOTES -- ARCHIVES AND PRIMARY SOURCES -- INDEX |
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