The road taken : China's incorporation process into the capitalist world system and its capitalist transition / Sung Hee Ru.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Yu, Sŏng-hŭi, 1982- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Capitalism--China--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (416 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2025]

Summary:

Traces China's transformations with a focus on China's incorporation process in the nineteenth century, which help to grasp the historical origins of China's capitalism.As Europe's colonial powers reached China in the nineteenth century, they became so strong that China could no longer ignore them.

Contents:

• Intro
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Nineteenth-Century China, World-Systems Analysis, and China's Incorporation Process
• Theoretical Frameworks for an Unprecedented Juncture in Nineteenth-Century China
• China's Decline in the Field of Comparative Historical Sociology
• Transformation of China in the Nineteenth Century Through Historians' Eyes
• China and the West in the Nineteenth Century
• Can the New Qing History Be a Panacea?
• Unit of Analysis: The Extent of Western Influence
• Synthesis Discussion: Sociological and Historical Epistemology and Historical Juncture in Nineteenth-Century China
• Incorporation Process: A Theoretical Framework for Nineteenth-Century Chinese History
• Methodological Frameworks for China's Incorporation Process: The Modern World-Systems, Incorporating Comparison, World Region, and Incorporating Dynamics
• Structure of the Book
• Chapter 1. Past Incorporation Studies and an Alternative Approach to China's Incorporation Process
• Past Incorporation Studies
• Incorporation Studies Within World-Systems Analysis
• Incorporation Studies Within Other Analyses
• Ways to Approach China's Incorporation Process
• The Roles of Exports in China's Incorporation Process
• An Interlinked History Between China and the West
• An Interlinked History Between China and the West Before China's Incorporation Process and Its Implications
• Escaping from Eurocentric Perspectives and Understanding the Nineteenth-Century Capitalist World-Economy
• The Long Nineteenth Century (1780s-1890s): The Duration of China's Incorporation Process
• Chapter 2. China's Incorporation Process: Production, New Classes, and Geography
• Silver, Opium, and Tea
• A Rise of New Classes in China's Incorporation Process
• Two Theoretical Premises for New Classes.
• The Rise of a New Class in Its International Aspects
• The Domestic Aspects of the Rise of a New Class
• The Geographical Transformation
• Transformation of Major Cities Under Pressure from the Capitalist World-Economy
• Shanghai
• Hong Kong
• Canton
• Hankou
• Finding the Logic of Incorporation in the Local: City-Hinterland Relationships
• Concluding Remarks
• Chapter 3. China's Incorporation Process: The Interstate System
• The European and Chinese Dynamics Compared
• Synthesis
• Opium Wars: Clashes Between Two Differently Evolved Socio-Military Systems and China's Defeat
• A Military Legacy of Late Imperial China
• The Opium Wars and Their Impact on China
• Causes of the Opium War
• Reflections on the War Situation: How Did Tension Between Britain and China Reach a Boiling Point?
• The First Reason for China's Defeat: Poor Communication and the Incompetence of Military Commanders
• Aftermath of the Opium War: The Political and Institutional Reforms
• The Establishment of the Zongliyamen: A Failed Reform
• Acceptance of International Law (Wanguogongfa 國公法)
• Background
• Logics of International Law
• Two Dreams in One Bed (Tongchuangyimeng 同床異夢)
• Consequences
• Chapter 4. Global Geopolitics: The Rise of Pacific Powers and Their Impact on China's Incorporation Process
• The Rise of the United States as a Pacific Power
• The Entry of Russia into China
• The First Sino-Japanese War and the Rise of Japanese Power
• The Roles of the Pacific Powers in the Incorporation of Manchuria into the Capitalist World-System
• The Railway Concession: A Case Study of How the Rise of Pacific Powers and China's Incorporation Process Were Interconnected
• Chapter 5. China's Backlash Against the Penetration of the Capitalist World-Economy
• Conservative Government Officials.
• Gentry and Lower-Class People
• Coolies
• Resistance Within Chinese Territory
• Case 1
• Case 2
• Case 3
• Resistance Outside Chinese Territory
• Concluding Remarks: Three Different Paths of Resistance
• Conclusion: The Development and Outcomes of China's Incorporation Process
• A New Approach to China's Incorporation
• Consequences of Chinese Incorporation
• China's Capitalist Transition
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

979-88-558-0305-1

OCLC:

1534195225