
Coercive Commerce: Global Capital and Imperial Governance at the End of the Qing Empire - Stacie A. Kent - Bookniverse
Coercive Commerce: Global Capital and Imperial Governance at the End of the Qing Empire
Stacie A. Kent
US $48.00
US $60.00
2024/12
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9789888876310
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ePub
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香港大學出版社
About this book
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In 1842, the Qing Empire signed a watershed commercial treaty with Great Britain, beginning a century-long period in which geopolitical and global economic entanglements intruded on Qing territory and governance. Previously understood as an era of “semi-colonialism,” Stacie A. Kent reframes this century of intervention by shedding light on the generative force of global capital.Based on extensive research conducted with British and Chinese government archives, Coercive Commerce shows how commercial treaties and the regulatory regime that grew out of them catalyzed a revised arts of governance in Qing-administered China. Capital, which had long been present in Chinese merchants’ pocket-books, came to shape and even govern Chinese statecraft during the “treaty era.” This book contends that Qing administrators alternately resisted and adapted to this new reality, through taxation systems such as transit passes and the Imperial Maritime Customs Service, by reorganizing Chinese territory into space where global circuits of capital could circulate and reproduce at ever greater scale.Offering a deep dive into the coercive nature of capitalism and the historically specific ways global capital reproduction took root in Qing China, this book will interest historians of capital and modern China alike.
About the author(s)
View moreStacie A. Kent
Stacie A. Kent is assistant professor of history at Boston College.
About the publisher
View more香港大學出版社成立於1956年,隸屬於亞洲最具影響力的英語學府——香港大學。出版社每年出版逾三十種新書,且中文書的比例持續增加,現已超過四分之一。憑藉香港獨特的國際地位,香港大學出版社的書籍深入探討、審視並彰顯亞洲在世界中的角色。我們在中國歷史與文化、法律、公共衛生、社會工作、電影與媒體研究、藝術,以及建築與城市規劃等領域的出版物尤為享有盛譽。
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