Author: John King FairbankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 489
Book Description
Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast
Author: John King FairbankAmericans and Macao
Author: Paul A. Van DykePublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888083929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The theme of this volume is the American relationship with Macao and its region through trade, politics and culture, and the focus is mainly on the late 18th and 19th centuries. The essays address topics such as the role of the China trade in US pacific expansion and exploration, US consuls, smuggling networks, missionary and educational work, and American women's perceptions of China. In all of the encounters, Macao emerges as a central player, adding a new dimension to our understanding of Sino-American relations.
Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast
Author: John King FairbankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
"SP 94." Bibliography: p. [533]-551.
Boundaries and Beyond
Author: Ng Chin-keongPublisher: NUS Press
ISBN: 9814722014
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Using the concept of boundaries, physical and cultural, to understand the development of China’s maritime southeast in late Imperial times, and its interactions across maritime East Asia and the broader Asian Seas, these linked essays by a senior scholar in the field challenge the usual readings of Chinese history from the centre. After an opening essay which positions China’s southeastern coast within a broader view of maritime Asia, the first section of the book looks at boundaries, between “us” and “them”, Chinese and other, during this period. The second section looks at the challenges to such rigid demarcations posed by the state and existed in the status quo. The third section discusses movements of people, goods and ideas across national borders and cultural boundaries, seeing tradition and innovation as two contesting forces in a constant state of interaction, compromise and reconciliation. This approach underpins a fresh understanding of China’s boundaries and the distinctions that separate China from the rest of the world. In developing this theme, Ng Chin-keong draws on many years of writing and research in Chinese and European archives. Of interest to students of migration, of Chinese history, and of the long term perspective on relations between China and its region, Ng’s analysis provides a crucial background to the historical shared experience of the people in Asian maritime zones. The result is a novel way of approaching Chinese history, argued from the perspective of a fresh understanding of China’s relations with neighbouring territories and the populations residing there, and of the nature of tradition and its persistence in the face of changing circumstances.
Trade and diplomacy on the China coast
Author: John King FairbankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 583
Book Description
Breaking with the Past
Author: Hans Van de VenPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231137389
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
From 1854 to 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue available to China’s central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China’s harbors and surveyed the Chinese coast. It oversaw a college training Chinese diplomats; translated legal, philosophical, economic, and scientific documents; organized contributions to international exhibitions; and pioneered China’s modern postal system. After the 1911 Revolution, the agency began managing China’s international loans and domestic bond issues, and in the 1930s, it created a coast guard to combat smuggling. The Customs Service was central to China’s post-Taiping entrance into the world of modern nation-states and twentieth-century trade and finance, and this is the first comprehensive history of the Customs Service’s activities and truly cosmopolitan nature. At times, the Service kept China together when little else did.
Anglo-Chinese Commerce and Diplomacy
Author: Arthur John SargentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
China
Author: John King FairbankPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674018280
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 642
Book Description
John King Fairbank was the West's doyen on China, and this book is the full and final expression of his lifelong engagement with this vast ancient civilization. The distinguished historian Merle Goldman brings the book up to date and provides an epilogue discussing the changes in contemporary China that will shape the nation in the years to come.
Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast
Author: John King FairbankPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia
Author: Xing HangPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316453847
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the Manchu Qing, and the first wave of European expansion into East Asia. Under four generations of leaders over six decades, the Zheng had come to dominate trade across the China Seas. Their average annual earnings matched, and at times exceeded, those of their fiercest rivals: the Dutch East India Company. Although nominally loyal to the Ming in its doomed struggle against the Manchus, the Zheng eventually forged an autonomous territorial state based on Taiwan with the potential to encompass the family's entire economic sphere of influence. Through the story of the Zheng, Xing Hang provides a fresh perspective on the economic divergence of early modern China from western Europe, its twenty-first-century resurgence, and the meaning of a Chinese identity outside China.