Strenuous Decades : : Global Challenges and Transformation of Chinese Societies in Modern Asia /

Strenuous Decades : : Global Challenges and Transformation of Chinese Societies in Modern Asia / / ed. by Chi-cheung Choi, Tomoko Shiroyama, Venus Viana.

The movement of goods and passengers between port cities not only stimulates growth in coastal trading networks and centers but also inevitably changes the social and economic lives of people in these port cities and, subsequently, of their fellow compatriots farther inland. Studies of port cities h...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Abe, Kaori,
Bisalputra, Pimpraphai,
Choi, Chi-cheung,
Chu, Richard T.,
Kang, Jin-A,
Li, Yi,
Mao, Di,
Morota, Hiroaki,
Qiushi, Huangfu,
Seng Loh, Kah,
Shiroyama, Tomoko,
Sng, Jeffery,
Tana, Li,
Viana, Venus,
Yiu Chan, Kai,
HerausgeberIn:
Choi, Chi-cheung,
Shiroyama, Tomoko,
Viana, Venus,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Social and Cultural Changes in China [SCCC] , 2
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XV, 338 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • Part I: Traders and workers abroad: Coping with colonial powers and socioeconomic adversaries
  • Coping with colonial governments
  • Chapter 1 Hong Kong rice merchants and Saigon’s rice exports, 1870s–1920s
  • Chapter 2 The general, the Chino, and the Señorita: Stories from The Manila Times in early US Colonial Manila
  • Chapter 3 Vulnerability, divided loyalties, and secret societies in Siam, 1850–1950
  • Modern hygiene and medicine
  • Chapter 4 A different model of hygienic modernity: Encountering plague in Macau in 1895
  • Chapter 5 Health crisis in Chinese worlds: Medicine, religion, and epidemics in South China and Southeast Asia, 1880s–1910s
  • Collective survival of workers
  • Chapter 6 A Cantonese Carpenters’ strike in Rangoon, 1922
  • Chapter 7 Coolies and crisis in Singapore: The great depression in the 1930s and the Chinese working class
  • Part II: Banks and businesses during the great depression
  • Silver and the Chinese economy
  • Chapter 8 Silver and East Asian cities before China’s Depression: Shanghai, Tientsin, and Dairen, 1925–1931
  • Chapter 9 Distant thunder? Reconsidering the impacts of the great depression on China
  • Credit system without a central bank
  • Chapter 10 Chinese currency circulation and credit order in the interwar period
  • Chapter 11 Monetary war between Nanjing and Guangzhou during the great depression: Financial unification and national versus local politics in China in the 1930s
  • Qiaoxiang (Overseas Chinese hometown) in crisis
  • Chapter 12 Currency reform and the 1934 financial crisis in Shantou
  • Chapter 13 Bank runs and runaway bankers in Zhongshan, 1930s
  • The paradox of the consumer market
  • Chapter 14 The Chinese cigarette market amid an economic crisis, 1931–1936
  • Glossary
  • Index

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