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Conflict and commerce in maritime East Asia : the Zheng family and the shaping of the modern world, c. 1620-1720 /
"The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the Manchu Qing, and the first wave of European expansion into East Asia. Under four generations of l...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Colección: | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the Manchu Qing, and the first wave of European expansion into East Asia. Under four generations of leaders over six decades, the Zheng had come to dominate trade across the China Seas. Their average annual earnings matched, and at times exceeded, those of their fiercest rivals: the Dutch East India Company. Although nominally loyal to the Ming in its doomed struggle against the Manchus, the Zheng eventually forged an autonomous territorial state based on Taiwan with the potential to encompass the family's entire economic sphere of influence. Through the story of the Zheng, Xing Hang provides a fresh perspective on the economic divergence of early modern China from western Europe, its twenty-first-century resurgence, and the meaning of a Chinese identity outside China"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 332 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316456729 1316456722 9781316401224 1316401227 9781316458648 1316458644 9781316458167 1316458164 |