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Distant Shores : Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier / Melissa Macauley.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Histories of Economic Life ; 26Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (376 p.) : 18 tables. 2 mapsContent type:
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  • 9780691220482
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 951.2/7 23
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  • DS797.32.C46245 M33 2021
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Great Convergence -- Part I. The Curse of the Maritime Blessing, 1767–1891 -- 1 Pacifying the Seas -- 2 Back in the World -- 3 Brotherhood of the Sword -- 4 Qingxiang -- Part II Winning the Opium Peace Maritime Chaozhou from Shanghai to Siam, 1858–1929 -- 5 Qingxiang -- 6 Narco-Capitalism -- 7 “This Diabolical Tyranny” -- 8 Translocal Families -- 9 Maritime Chaozhou at Full Moon, 1891–1929 -- Conclusion: Territorialism and the State -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Total Value of Trade, Ten Leading Treaty Ports, 1875–1879 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A Note On The Type
Summary: A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century. Distant Shores challenges this view, showing that the economic expansion of southeastern Chinese rivaled the colonial ambitions of Europeans overseas.In a story that dawns with the Industrial Revolution and culminates in the Great Depression, Melissa Macauley explains how sojourners from an ungovernable corner of China emerged among the commercial masters of the South China Sea. She focuses on Chaozhou, a region in the great maritime province of Guangdong, whose people shared a repertoire of ritual, cultural, and economic practices. Macauley traces how Chaozhouese at home and abroad reaped many of the benefits of an overseas colonial system without establishing formal governing authority. Their power was sustained instead through a mosaic of familial, fraternal, and commercial relationships spread across the ports of Bangkok, Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Swatow. The picture that emerges is not one of Chinese divergence from European modernity but rather of a convergence in colonial sites that were critical to modern development and accelerating levels of capital accumulation.A magisterial work of scholarship, Distant Shores reveals how the transoceanic migration of Chaozhouese laborers and merchants across a far-flung maritime world linked the Chinese homeland to an ever-expanding frontier of settlement and economic extraction.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: The Great Convergence -- Part I. The Curse of the Maritime Blessing, 1767–1891 -- 1 Pacifying the Seas -- 2 Back in the World -- 3 Brotherhood of the Sword -- 4 Qingxiang -- Part II Winning the Opium Peace Maritime Chaozhou from Shanghai to Siam, 1858–1929 -- 5 Qingxiang -- 6 Narco-Capitalism -- 7 “This Diabolical Tyranny” -- 8 Translocal Families -- 9 Maritime Chaozhou at Full Moon, 1891–1929 -- Conclusion: Territorialism and the State -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix: Total Value of Trade, Ten Leading Treaty Ports, 1875–1879 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A Note On The Type

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A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century. Distant Shores challenges this view, showing that the economic expansion of southeastern Chinese rivaled the colonial ambitions of Europeans overseas.In a story that dawns with the Industrial Revolution and culminates in the Great Depression, Melissa Macauley explains how sojourners from an ungovernable corner of China emerged among the commercial masters of the South China Sea. She focuses on Chaozhou, a region in the great maritime province of Guangdong, whose people shared a repertoire of ritual, cultural, and economic practices. Macauley traces how Chaozhouese at home and abroad reaped many of the benefits of an overseas colonial system without establishing formal governing authority. Their power was sustained instead through a mosaic of familial, fraternal, and commercial relationships spread across the ports of Bangkok, Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Swatow. The picture that emerges is not one of Chinese divergence from European modernity but rather of a convergence in colonial sites that were critical to modern development and accelerating levels of capital accumulation.A magisterial work of scholarship, Distant Shores reveals how the transoceanic migration of Chaozhouese laborers and merchants across a far-flung maritime world linked the Chinese homeland to an ever-expanding frontier of settlement and economic extraction.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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