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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hang, Xing (1982-....)
Titre(s) : Conflict and commerce in maritime East Asia [Texte imprimé] : the Zheng family and the shaping of the modern world, c. 1620-1720 / Xing Hang, Brandeis University
Publication : Cambridge (GB) : Cambridge University press, 2015
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-332 pages) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Lien à la collection : Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (Columbia university)
Comprend : Introduction ; 1. Setting the stage ; 2. From smuggler-pirates to loyal Confucians
; 3. Between trade and legitimacy ; 4. Brave new world ; 5. The Zheng state on Taiwan
; 6. The lure of "China" ; 7. A contingent destruction ; 8. Conclusion ; Appendix
1: Romanization of East Asian Languages ; Appendix 2: Measurements and Currency Conversions
; Appendix 3: Zheng Market Share, Revenues, and Profitability, 1640-1683 ; Appendix
4: Glossary of Chinese Characters.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 306-325) and index
"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"
Sujet(s) : Commerçants -- Chine -- 17e siècle
Commerçants -- Taiwan -- 17e siècle
Commerce -- Chine -- 17e siècle
Relations économiques extérieures -- Chine -- Europe de l'Ouest -- 17e siècle
Relations économiques extérieures -- Europe de l'Ouest -- Chine -- 17e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781107121843. - ISBN 1107121841. - ISBN 9781107558458. - ISBN 110755845X (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb44474819r
Notice n° :
FRBNF44474819
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