Distant Shores (eBook)

Colonial Encounters on China's Maritime Frontier

Melissa Macauley (Autor)

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2021
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22048-2 (ISBN)

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A pioneering history that transforms our understanding of the colonial era and China's place in itChina 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 of Europeans overseas.In a story that dawns with the Industrial Revolution and culminates in the Great Depression, Melissa Macauley explains how sojourners from an ungovernable corner of China emerged among the commercial masters of the South China Sea. She focuses on Chaozhou, a region in the great maritime province of Guangdong, whose people shared a repertoire of ritual, cultural, and economic practices. Macauley traces how Chaozhouese at home and abroad reaped many of the benefits of an overseas colonial system without establishing formal governing authority. Their power was sustained instead through a mosaic of familial, fraternal, and commercial relationships spread across the ports of Bangkok, Singapore, Saigon, Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Swatow. The picture that emerges is not one of Chinese divergence from European modernity but rather of a convergence in colonial sites that were critical to modern development and accelerating levels of capital accumulation.A magisterial work of scholarship, Distant Shores reveals how the transoceanic migration of Chaozhouese laborers and merchants across a far-flung maritime world linked the Chinese homeland to an ever-expanding frontier of settlement and economic extraction.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.5.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Histories of Economic Life
• Reihe/Serie: Histories of Economic Life
• Zusatzinfo: 18 tables. 2 maps.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • American Council of Learned Societies • Anti-Qing sentiment • Banditry • Bangkok • Beijing • Borneo • British Empire • British Malaya • British subject • Cambodia • Capitalism • Chaozhou • Chiang Kai-shek • China • Chinese emigration • Chinese history • Chinese nationalism • Colonialism • Colonial Office • Colonization • colony • Commodity • comprador • Copyright • Counter-Insurgency • criminal underworld • cultivator • Customs • Dabu • Dutch East Indies • East Asia • Economic History • Emigration • Employment • European Americans • famine • French Indochina • Fujian • Global History • government office • Governor-General • Guangdong • Haimen • Haiyang • history of piracy • Household • Huizhou • Ideology • imperialism • Indochina • Insurgency • International Trade • Jardine Matheson • Jiangxi • Jieyang • Jinhua • Johor • King of Siam • laborer • Liu Kunyi • Malaya • Maritime History • mass migration • Ming Dynasty • Nation-Building • nation state • Opium • opium trade • opium wars • Overseas Chinese • peasant • Persecution • Picul • Piracy • Politics • Postcolonialism • Princeton University Press • Proscription • Prostitution • Puning • Qing conquest of the Ming • Qing Dynasty • Refugee • remittance • resentment • Robbery • Second Opium War • Shanghaiing • Shanghai International Settlement • Shantou • Smuggling • Social History • Sodality (social anthropology) • South China Sea • Southeast Asia • State Building • State-Building • Surname • Tael • Taksin • tariff • Tax • Teochew • Thailand • the mandarins • The Other Hand • Tiandihui • Tianjin • Translocal • transnational • triad • Violence • Wealth • World War II • Xinhai Revolution • Zeng • Zheng (state)
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22048-4 / 0691220484
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22048-2 / 9780691220482