Distant Shores : : Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier / / Melissa Macauley.
A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century. Distant Shores challenges this...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Histories of Economic Life ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (376 p.) :; 18 tables. 2 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: The Great Convergence
- Part I. The Curse of the Maritime Blessing, 1767–1891
- 1 Pacifying the Seas
- 2 Back in the World
- 3 Brotherhood of the Sword
- 4 Qingxiang
- Part II Winning the Opium Peace Maritime Chaozhou from Shanghai to Siam, 1858–1929
- 5 Qingxiang
- 6 Narco-Capitalism
- 7 “This Diabolical Tyranny”
- 8 Translocal Families
- 9 Maritime Chaozhou at Full Moon, 1891–1929
- Conclusion: Territorialism and the State
- Acknowledgments
- Appendix: Total Value of Trade, Ten Leading Treaty Ports, 1875–1879
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- A Note On The Type