The Global in the Local : : A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China /

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,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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