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Exotic commodities : modern objects and everyday life in China.
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ISBN: 9780231141161 0231141165 Year: 2007 Publisher: New York Columbia university press


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De wederopstanding van China : van prooi tot wereldmacht
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ISBN: 9789044641363 9044641360 Year: 2020 Publisher: Amsterdam Prometheus

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Geen enkel land ter wereld staat de laatste jaren zozeer in de belangstelling als China. De groeiende economische en politieke invloed van China betekent een terugkeer van het land als grootste economie ter wereld. Maar tegelijkertijd is de rol van China in de moderne wereld fundamenteel anders dan ooit tevoren. 'De wederopstanding van China' volgt de ontwikkeling van China's rol op het wereldtoneel, vanaf de Opiumoorlog tot nu. Wat begon als een reactie op Europa's koloniale invloed is geleidelijk veranderd in een streven van China om een leidende rol te spelen in de wereld. China is steeds beter in staat de wereldorde te vormen, maar wordt zelf ook gevormd door de wereldorde. Frans-Paul van der Putten beschrijft hoe diepgeworteld en verreikend China's ambitie is om mondiaal meer invloed te krijgen. Hij laat zien waar China's prioriteiten en beperkingen liggen, en dat het land pragmatisch genoeg is om compromissen te sluiten wanneer dat nodig is. Het boek gaat ook in op de vraag wat dit alles betekent voor Europa, en hoe het kan reageren op de opkomst van China.


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Commerce, argent, pouvoir : L'impossible avènement du capitalisme en Chine : XVIe-XIXe siècle
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ISBN: 9782271137043 2271137047 Year: 2022 Publisher: Paris CNRS

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Entre 1550 et la fin du XIXe siècle, la Chine connaît un modèle économique autochtone unique. Au croisement de l'histoire, de la géographie et de l'économie, l'auteur en dévoile le fonctionnement et les logiques. Alors que les empereurs limitent l'accumulation de richesses et de capital, institutions économiques, réseaux marchands et échanges prospèrent selon des modes familiaux et claniques. ©Electre 2022

China and capitalism
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ISBN: 9882206697 128270852X 9786612708527 9882203833 9622097839 9622097847 9789882203839 9789882206694 9789622097834 9789622097841 9781282708525 6612708522 Year: 2006 Publisher: Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press,

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This book describes China's encounter with capitalism from the sixteenth century to the twentieth century. It poses poignant questions in simple language, guides the reader through a complex literature and presents a unique point of view.


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Tea war : a history of capitalism in China and India
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ISBN: 9780300243734 Year: 2020 Publisher: New Haven, Conn. Yale University Press

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"Tea War studies the competition between the tea industries of China and colonial India as an exploration of the history of capitalism. Liu challenges previous histories premised on the technical "divergence" between the West and the Rest, arguing that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capitalist development in the tea districts of China and India. He explains how the pressures of competition compelled merchants in China to adopt abstract, industrial conceptions of time, while in India colonial capitalists pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. He also explains how characterizations of China and colonial India as premodern backwaters were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to the concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward more flexible and globally oriented conceptualizations of capitalism"--

Commerce in culture : the Sibao book trade in the Qing and Republican periods
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ISBN: 9780674024496 0674024494 1684174503 9781684174508 Year: 2007 Volume: 280 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Asia Center


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Southwest China in a regional and global perspective (c. 1600-1911)
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ISBN: 9004353712 9789004353718 9789004353633 9004353631 Year: 2018 Publisher: Leiden Boston

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The book 'Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c. 1600-1911)' is dedicated to important issues in society, trade, and local policy in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan during the late phase of the Qing period. It combines the methods of various disciplines to bring more light into the neglected history of a region that witnessed a faster population growth than any other region in China during that age. The contributions to the volume analyse conflicts and arrangements in immigrant societies, problems of environmental change, the economic significance of copper as the most important ?export? product, topographical and legal obstacles in trade and transport, specific problems in inter-regional trade, and the roots of modern transnational enterprise.


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Coping with calamity
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ISBN: 0774825979 9780774825955 0774825952 9780774825979 9780774825986 0774825987 9780774825962 Year: 2014 Publisher: Vancouver [British Columbia]

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The Jianghan Plain in central China has been shaped by its relationship with water. Once a prolific rice-growing region that drew immigrants to its fertile paddy fields, it has, since the eighteenth century, become prone to devastating flooding and waterlogging. Jiayan Zhang consults early records of catastrophic water events and explores their role in shaping Jianghan society in the Qing and Republican periods. In a constantly shifting environment, the peasants of Jianghan were forced to adapt their farming methods; cooperate on complex projects like dike building; and even organize social structures, tenancy arrangements, and lifestyles around the pressure and uncertainty of their environment. The first environmental and socioeconomic history of the region, Coping with Calamity considers the Jianghan Plain's volatile environment, the constant challenges it presented to peasants, and their often ingenious and sophisticated responses.

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