Coercive Commerce: Global Capital and Imperial Governance at the End of the Qing Empire
Autor Stacie A. Kenten Limba Engleză Hardback – 16 dec 2024
In 1842, the Qing Empire signed a watershed commercial treaty with Great Britain, beginning a century-long period in which geopolitical and global economic entanglements intruded on Qing territory and governance. Previously understood as an era of “semi-colonialism,” Stacie A. Kent reframes this century of intervention by shedding light on the generative force of global capital.
Based on extensive research, conducted with British and Chinese government archives, Coercive Commerce shows how commercial treaties and the regulatory regime that grew out of them catalyzed a revised arts of governance in Qing-administered China. Capital, which had long been present in Chinese merchants’ pocketbooks, came to shape and even govern Chinese statecraft during the “treaty era.” This book contends that Qing administrators alternately resisted and adapted to this new reality through taxation systems such as transit passes and the Imperial Maritime Customs Service by reorganizing Chinese territory into a space where global circuits of capital could circulate and reproduce at an ever greater scale.
Offering a deep dive into the coercive nature of capitalism and the historically specific ways global capital reproduction took root in Qing China, Coercive Commerce will interest historians of capital and modern China alike.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789888876754
ISBN-10: 9888876759
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 10 halftones, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Hong Kong University Press
Colecția Hong Kong University Press
ISBN-10: 9888876759
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 10 halftones, 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Hong Kong University Press
Colecția Hong Kong University Press
Notă biografică
Stacie A. Kent is assistant professor of history at Boston College.
Cuprins
List of Figures and Table viii
Acknowledgments ix
Note on Romanization, Translation, and Place Names xi
Introduction 1
1. Calling Forth Governance: Treaties and Coercion on the China Coast 23
2. Institutional Structures for Capital Growth 56
3. Disorderly Order 87
4. Not All Commerce Is Capitalism 116
5. Boundary Struggles: Treaties, Taxation, and the Erasure of Difference 141
6. Experiments for the Future 180
Conclusion 216
Appendix 227
Bibliography 229
Index 252
Acknowledgments ix
Note on Romanization, Translation, and Place Names xi
Introduction 1
1. Calling Forth Governance: Treaties and Coercion on the China Coast 23
2. Institutional Structures for Capital Growth 56
3. Disorderly Order 87
4. Not All Commerce Is Capitalism 116
5. Boundary Struggles: Treaties, Taxation, and the Erasure of Difference 141
6. Experiments for the Future 180
Conclusion 216
Appendix 227
Bibliography 229
Index 252