Opportunity in Crisis : Cantonese Migrants and the State in Late Qing China /

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"Opportunity in Crisis explores the history of late Qing Cantonese migration along the West River basin during war and reconstruction and the impact of those developments on the relationship between state and local elites on the Guangxi frontier. By situating Cantonese upriver and overseas migr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Miles, Steven B., 1964- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, [2021]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Migration, Internal > China > Xi River Region > History > 19th century.
Migration, Internal > China > Guangdong Sheng > History > 19th century.
Migration, Internal.
Commerce.
Migration interieure > Chine > Guangdong (Sheng) > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Xi River (China) > Commerce > History > 19th century.
Xi River Region (China) > Commerce > History > 19th century.
China > Guangdong Sheng.
China > Xi River.
Xi Jiang (Chine) > Commerce > Histoire > 19e siecle.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Atop the wharf and in the shadows
  • Elite and underclass in the early nineteenth century
  • Upriver wars, 1848-1858
  • Continuities and changes, 1850s-1890s
  • Turning the tide : building a Cantonese niche in the Guangxi bureaucracy
  • A stream of profits : expanding and adapting Cantonese commercial networks
  • The flow of prestige : civil examinations and Cantonese lineages
  • Echoes at the end of an era
  • A treaty port comprador in the West River corridor
  • Triads and telegraph : the Lizhou Mutiny and its aftermath.

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