Author: Čhīranan Prasœ̄tkunPublisher: Institute of Asian Studies Chulalongkorn University
ISBN:
Category : Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Yunnan Trade in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Čhīranan Prasœ̄tkunPublisher: Institute of Asian Studies Chulalongkorn University
ISBN:
Category : Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Fields from the Sea
Author: Jennifer Wayne CushmanPublisher: SEAP Publications
ISBN: 9780877277118
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Methodical and inquisitive, Cushman explores Chinese junk trade with Siam over two centuries. In the course of her analysis, the author illuminates significant aspects of China's economic development, the implementation of commercial policies by the two nations, and concepts of trade in the east and southeast of Asia.
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-century China
Author: Carol BenedictPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Epidemiology
Languages : en
Pages : 884
Book Description
Asian Borderlands
Author: Charles Patterson GierschPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674021716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
With comparative frontier history and pioneering use of indigenous sources, Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest. He focuses on the Tai domains of the Yunnan frontier on the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry.
Mountain Rivers, Mountain Roads: Transport in Southwest China, 1700‐1850
Author: Nanny KimPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900441617X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 647
Book Description
Nanny Kim analyses two transports systems into the Southwest of Qing China, focussing on shipping on the Upper Changjiang and road transport into central Yunnan, examining concrete technologies, economics, and the transporters in local societies and environments.
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Carol Ann BenedictPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804726610
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book, the first work in English on the history of disease in China, traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteenth century, and eventually exploded on the world scene as a global pandemic at the end of the century. The author finds the origins of the pandemic in Qing economic expansion, which brought new populations into contact with plague-bearing animals along Chinas southwestern frontier. She shows how the geographic diffusion of the disease closely followed the growth of interregional trading networks, particularly the domestic trade in opium, during the nineteenth century. A discussion of foreign interventions during plague outbreaks along Chinas southern coast links the history of plague to the political impact of imperialism on China, and to the ways in which European cultural representations of the Chinese influenced the theory and practice of colonial medicine.
Bubonic Plague in Nineteenth-Century China
Author: Carol BenedictPublisher:
ISBN: 9781503616134
Category : MEDICAL
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
This book, the first work in English on the history of disease in China, traces an epidemic of bubonic plague that began in Yunnan province in the late eighteenth century, spread throughout much of southern China in the nineteenth century, and eventually exploded on the world scene as a global pandemic at the end of the century. The author finds the origins of the pandemic in Qing economic expansion, which brought new populations into contact with plague-bearing animals along China's southwestern frontier. She shows how the geographic diffusion of the disease closely followed the growth of interregional trading networks, particularly the domestic trade in opium, during the nineteenth century. A discussion of foreign interventions during plague outbreaks along China's southern coast links the history of plague to the political impact of imperialism on China, and to the ways in which European cultural representations of the Chinese influenced the theory and practice of colonial medicine.
Southwest China in a Regional and Global Perspective (c.1600-1911)
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004353712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
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.
The Chinese Sultanate
Author: David G. AtwillPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804751599
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The first historical examination of a Muslim-led rebellion in mid-nineteenth-century China which carved out an independent sultanate along China's southwestern border lasting nearly seventeen years.
Tea War
Author: Andrew B. LiuPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300252331
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
A history of capitalism in nineteenth‑ and twentieth‑century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries “Tea War is not only a detailed comparative history of the transformation of tea production in the 19th and early 20th centuries, but it also intervenes in larger debates about the nature of capitalism, global modernity, and global history.”— Alexander F. Day, Occidental College Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, 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 concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.