Distant Shores : Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier /

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"China has conventionally been considered a land empire whose lack of maritime and colonial reach contributed to its economic decline after the mid-eighteenth century. Distant Shores challenges this view, showing that the economic expansion of southeastern Chinese rivaled the colonial ambitions...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macauley, Melissa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
International relations
Imperialism > Economic aspects
Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects
Economic history
HISTORY / Asia / General.
Imperialism > Economic aspects.
China > Chaozhou Shi
Asia
Chaozhou Shi (China) > Relations > Asia.
Chaozhou Shi (China) > Emigration and immigration > Economic aspects.
Chaozhou Shi (China) > Economic conditions.
Chaozhou Shi (China) > History.
History
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The great convergence
  • Pacifying the seas: imperial campaigns and the early modern maritime frontier, 1566-1684
  • Back in the world: the emergence of maritime Chaozhou, 1767-1840
  • Brotherhood of the sword: peasant intellectuals and the cult of insurgency, 1775-1866
  • Qingxiang: pacification on the coastal frontier, 1869-1891
  • Qingxiang: the translocal and transtemporal repercussions of village pacification, 1869-1975
  • Narco-capitalism: confronting the British in Shanghai, 1839-1927
  • "This diabolical tyranny:" domesticating the British at Chaozhou, 1858-1890s
  • Translocal families: women in a male world, 1880s-1929
  • Maritime Chaozhou at full moon, 1891-1929
  • Territorialism and the state.

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