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S10/0500 --- S10/0620 --- Silk industry --- -#SML: Joseph Spae --- Silk manufacture and trade --- Textile industry --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Industries and industrialization: general and before 1911 (economic aspects come here) --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Foreign trade and economic relations: 1842 - 1949 --- History --- #SML: Joseph Spae --- S17/1300 --- China: Art and archaeology--Textile, tapestries, embroideries, rugs, fashion --- History. --- Silk industry.

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A natural resource strategist investigates the growing global demand for rare metals and what it means to the environment and our future Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies, and indeed the fate of our planet depend on them. These metals have become the building blocks of modern society; their properties are now essential for nearly all our electronic, military, and "green" technologies. But their growing use is not without environmental, economic, and geopolitical consequences. Abraham traces these elements' hidden paths from mines to our living rooms, from the remote hills of China to the frozen Gulf of Finland, providing vivid accounts of those who produce, trade, and rely on rare metals. He argues that these materials are increasingly playing a significant role in global affairs, conferring strength to countries and companies that can ensure sustainable supplies. Just as oil, iron, and bronze revolutionized previous eras, so too will these metals. The challenges this book reveals, and the plans it proposes, make it essential reading for our rare metal age.

Rare earth metals. --- Rare earth industry. --- Rare earths industry --- Nonferrous metal industries --- Lanthanide series --- Lanthanides --- Lanthanoid series --- Lanthanons --- Rare earth elements --- Nonferrous metals --- Rare earth industry --- Rare earth metals --- E-books --- S10/0523 --- S10/0500 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Power supply (electricity, mining, oil) and computing industry --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Industries and industrialization: general and before 1911 (economic aspects come here)

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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"--

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Agriculture --- Industries --- Economic development --- Chinese --- Industrie --- Développement économique --- Chinois à l'étranger --- China --- Chine --- Economic conditions --- Foreign economic relations --- Conditions économiques --- Relations économiques extérieures --- S11/1040 --- S11/0497 --- S03/0305 --- S11/1215 --- S20/0253 --- S10/0500 --- China: Social sciences--Population, demography: China: since 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Society since 1976 --- China: Geography, description and travel--Geography: since 1949 --- China: Social sciences--Works on national minorities and special groups: since 1949 --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--General works: since 1979 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Industries and industrialization: general and before 1911 (economic aspects come here) --- Développement économique --- Chinois à l'étranger --- Conditions économiques --- Relations économiques extérieures

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From precious jade articles to monumental stone arches, Huizhou salt merchants in Jiangnan lived surrounded by objects in eighteenth-century China. How and why did these businessmen devote themselves to these items? What can we learn about eighteenth-century China by examining the relationship between merchants and objects? Luxurious Networks examines Huizhou salt merchants in the material world of High Qing China to reveal a dynamic interaction between people and objects. The Qianlong emperor purposely used objects to expand his influence in economic and cultural fields. Thanks to their broad networks, outstanding managerial skills, and abundant financial resources, these salt merchants were ideal agents for selecting and producing objects for imperial use. In contrast to the typical caricature of merchants as mimics of the literati, these wealthy businessmen became respected individuals who played a crucial role in the political, economic, social, and cultural world of eighteenth-century China. Their life experiences illustrate the dynamic relationship between the Manchu and Han, central and local, and humans and objects in Chinese history.

Merchants --- Salt industry and trade --- Manchus --- Material culture --- S04/0680 --- S10/0450 --- S10/0500 --- Culture --- Folklore --- Technology --- Manchu (Manchurian people) --- Ethnology --- Tatars --- Tungusic peoples --- Nonmetallic minerals industry --- Businesspeople --- History --- Social networks --- Kings and rulers --- China: History--Qing: general: 1644 - 1912 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Commerce inside China: general and before 1911 --- China: Economics, industry and commerce--Industries and industrialization: general and before 1911 (economic aspects come here) --- Huizhou Diqu (China) --- China --- Hui-chou ti chʻü (China) --- Huizhou Prefecture (China) --- Hui-chou Prefecture (China) --- Anhui Sheng Huizhou Diqu (China) --- History of Asia --- anno 1700-1799 --- Commerce --- 徽州地区 (China) --- Huangshan Shi (China : Prefecture)