Opportunity in Crisis : : Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China / / Steven B. Miles.
"Opportunity in Crisis explores the history of late Qing Cantonese migration along the West River basin during war and reconstruction and the impact of those developments on the relationship between state and local elites on the Guangxi frontier. By situating Cantonese upriver and overseas migr...
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| Superior document: | Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill | Harvard University Asia Center,, [2022] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Harvard University Asia Center E-Book Collection, Supplement 2021.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- Atop the wharf and in the shadows
- Elite and underclass in the early nineteenth century
- Upriver wars, 1848-1858
- Continuities and changes, 1850s-1890s
- Turning the tide : building a Cantonese niche in the Guangxi bureaucracy
- A stream of profits : expanding and adapting Cantonese commercial networks
- The flow of prestige : civil examinations and Cantonese lineages
- Echoes at the end of an era
- A treaty port comprador in the West River corridor
- Triads and telegraph : the Lizhou Mutiny and its aftermath.