The global in the local : a century of war, commerce, and technology in China / Xin Zhang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Xin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--China--Zhenjiang Xian--History.

Globalization.

Opium trade--China--Zhenjiang Shi--History.

Opium trade.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (289 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol : Harvard University Press, 2023.

Summary:

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, world-historic political, economic, and technological developments transformed everyday life in places like Zhenjiang, a midsize Chinese river town. Xin Zhang explores the local negotiation of globalization through the experience of Zhenjiang's merchants, entrepreneurs, and ordinary residents.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction UNDERSTANDING GLOBAL CHANGES IN CHINA

PART ONE. WAR AS A NEGATIVE FORM OF LIAISON

Introduction

1 Place, History, and People

2 The Battle of Zhenjiang

3 The Invader and the Invaded

PART TWO. COMMERCIAL NETWORKS AND TRANSREGIONAL TRADE

4 The Nineteenth-Century Transformation

5 Brokering Multiple Commercial Networks

6 The Shanghai Commercial Network

PART THREE. NEGOTIATING TECHNOLOGY

7 Steam Navigation as a Means of Dominance

8 The Role of the Steamboat

9 Foreign Technology and Local Society

Conclusion

NOTES

ARCHIVES AND PRIMARY SOURCES

INDEX

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780674293144

0674293142

9780674293137

0674293134

OCLC:

1369181673