Part history, part biography, and part mystery story, SmokelessSugar reveals how the concept of a national economy took shape inChina by investigating the 1936 execution of Feng Rui, a provincialofficial who introduced modern sugar milling in Guangdong.
Examining the circumstances of Feng Rui’s arrest on charges ofcorruption, Emily Hill traces the construction of a Chinese nationaleconomy through cross-border interactions between industry andagriculture and between China and Japan. She makes the case that Fengwas, in fact, a scapegoat in a multi-sided power struggle in whichpolitical leaders vied with commercial players for access toChina's markets and tax revenues. This illuminating studychallenges conventional wisdom about the effectiveness of theRepublican state in promoting national unity during the Nanjing decadeand highlights continuities in official economic policies from the1930s to the Communist era.
Автор: Carroll, John M. Название: Canton days ISBN: 1538136295 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781538136294 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 50690.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: The first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842, this book challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China. Written in clear, lively prose, it will appeal to all readers interested in British imperial history and early modern China.
Автор: Legge, William Название: Guide to hongkong. with some remarks upon macao and canton. ISBN: 1241207739 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781241207731 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 26670.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Constance Gordon-Cumming Название: Wanderings in China: Hong Kong & Canton, Christmas & New Year 1878/1879 ISBN: 9887554766 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789887554769 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 14290.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Inveterate Victorian traveller and prolific artist Constance Gordon-Cumming roamed far and wide: from the Scottish Highlands to the American West, from the islands of Hawaii to southern China. Even among her many adventures, Gordon-Cummings 1878/1879 trip to Hong Kong was momentous. She arrived just before Christmas 1878 to inadvertently witness the terrible Great Fire of Hong Kong that swept devastatingly through the Central and Mid-Levels districts. She then moved on to explorations of the streets, temples and Chinese New Year festivities in Canton (Guangzhou) before returning to Hong Kong for the horse races at Happy Valley in February 1879. Gordon-Cumming is that rare travel writer who while plunging into the throngs and crowds manages to observe the minutiae of life around her.. Describes the Canton and Hong Kong of the 1870s.A travelogue written by a fearless solo female traveller who was well-known for her books and magazine articles in the late Victorian period. Describes the traditional Chinese New Year festivities.
Social network are nowadays inherent parts of our lives and highly developed communication technique helps us maintain our relationships. But how did it work in the early 19th century, in a time without cell phones and internet? A Chinese Hong Merchant in Canton Trade named Houqua (1769–1843), who lived in isolated Qing China, gives us an outstanding answer. Despite various barriers in cultures, languages, political situations and his identity as a Chinese merchant strictly under control of the Qing government, Houqua established a commercial network across three continents: Asia, North America and Europe. This book will not only uncover his secrets and actions in his Chinese social network especially patronage relationships in traditional Chinese society, but also reconstruct his intercultural network, including his unique and even "modern" friendship with some American traders which lasted almost half a century after Houqua?s death.
Автор: Couch, Benjamin Название: Ling-nam ISBN: 9887554774 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789887554776 Издательство: Gazelle Book Services Рейтинг: Цена: 14290.00 T Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ. Описание: Benjamin Couch BC Henry was a missionary in Hong Kong and southern China in the second half of the 19th century. Yet he was much more too a keen observer, a skilled naturalist and an intrepid explorer. The bulk of his career in China was spent in what was then commonly known as Ling-nam, the Pearl River Delta and environs of Guangzhou (Canton). These excerpts of Henrys travelogue LING-NAM, published in 1886, contain one of the most detailed walking tours of Guangzhou that has survived. Similarly so his travels through the silk, tea and market garden regions adjoining the metropolis. And finally, we have Henrys ground-breaking account of his expeditions around Hainan Island in 1882, then the most extensive undertaken to date by a foreigner. Henrys portrait of southern China was built up over 20 years work and exploration in the region and provides one of the most in-depth looks at southern Chinese life from the growth of Hong Kong, to the bustling streets of Guangzhou, to Hainans Island of Palms. Describes the Canton, Hong Kong and remote Hainan Island of the 1880s. Written by an American missionary and educator in China who was much in demand as a speaker in the United States. Henrys journeys through the silk, tea and market garden regions of the Pearl River Delta are of interest and rarely discussed in such detail by foreign observers. Henrys expeditions to Hainan Island were the most extensive undertaken to date by a foreigner when he embarked on them in October and November 1882.
Автор: Wong Название: Global Trade in the Nineteenth Century ISBN: 1107150663 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107150669 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 95040.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: A comprehensive study of the prominent Chinese merchant Houqua, whose trading network and financial connections stretched from China to India, America and Britain. John D. Wong examines the dynamics of global exchange configured around nineteenth-century Canton, illustrating how the Chinese economy was integrated with global networks well before the Opium Wars.
Автор: Anderson Patrick Название: Sun Yatsen, Robert Wilcox and Their Failed Revolutions, Honolulu and Canton 1895: Dynamite on the Tropic of Cancer ISBN: 0367706148 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367706142 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 148010.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Dynamite offers a radical re-examination of the "Father of Modern China" Dr. Sun Yatsen`s globally shaped formation as a professional revolutionist, and of the dynamic impact on his Chinese revolution of Sun`s relationship in the 1890s with Hawai`i and with Robert Wilcox, "Hawai`i`s Garibaldi".
A study of the politics of rice in Canton, this book sheds new light on the local history of the city and illuminates how China's struggles with food shortages in the early twentieth century unfolded and the ways in which they were affected by the rise of nationalism and the fluctuation of global commerce.
Author Seung-joon Lee profiles Canton as an exemplary site of provisioning, a critical gateway for foreign rice importation and distribution through the Pearl River Delta, which found its prized import, and thus its food security, threatened by the rise of Chinese nationalism. Lee argues that the modern Chinese state's attempts to promote domestically-produced "national rice" and to tax rice imported through the transnational trade networks were doomed to failure, as a focus on rice production ignored the influential factor of rice quality. Indeed, China's domestic rice promotion program resulted in an unprecedented famine in Canton in 1936. This book contends that the ways in which the Guomindang government dealt with the issue of food security, and rice in particular, is best understood in the context of its preoccupation with science, technology, and progressivism, a departure from the conventional explanations that cite governmental incompetence.
Автор: Temple, Lt.-Col. Sir Rich Название: The Travels of Peter Mundy, in Europe and Asia, 1608-1667 ISBN: 1409414124 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781409414124 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 137810.00 T Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Автор: Cheong, Weng Eang Название: The Hong Merchants of Canton ISBN: 0700703616 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780700703616 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 153120.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
