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Xin Zhang The Global in the Local (Hardback) (UK IMPORT)
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- Book Title
- Global in the Local : a Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China
- Publication Name
- The Global in the Local
- Title
- The Global in the Local
- Subtitle
- A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10
- 0674278380
- EAN
- 9780674278387
- ISBN
- 9780674278387
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Genre
- History, Political Science
- Topic
- Globalization, Asia / General, Social History, Asia / China
- Release Year
- 2023
- Release Date
- 04/04/2023
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 1in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 20.8 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 288 Pages
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The story of globalization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as experienced by ordinary people in the Chinese river town of Zhenjiang. Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842. Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard of the suffering the British inflicted two months earlier, in Zhapu. A wave of suicides and mercy killings ensued: rather than leave their families to the invaders, hundreds of women killed themselves and their children or died at the hands of male family members. British observers decried an "Asian culture" of ritual suicide. In reality, the event was sui generis --a tragic result of colliding local and global forces in nineteenth-century China. Xin Zhang's groundbreaking history examines the intense negotiations between local societies and global changes that created modern China. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, world-historic political, economic, and technological developments transformed the textures of everyday life in places like Zhenjiang, a midsize river town in China's prosperous Lower Yangzi region. Drawing on rare primary sources, including handwritten diaries and other personal writings, Zhang offers a ground-level view of globalization in the city. We see civilians coping with the traumatic international encounters of the Opium War; Zhenjiang brokers bankrolling Shanghai's ascendance as a cosmopolitan commercial hub; and merchants shipping goods to market, for the first time, on steamships. Far from passive recipients, the Chinese leveraged, resisted, and made change for themselves. Indeed, The Global in the Local argues that globalization is inevitably refracted through local particularities.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674278380
ISBN-13
9780674278387
eBay Product ID (ePID)
19057250311
Product Key Features
Book Title
Global in the Local : a Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Globalization, Asia / General, Social History, Asia / China
Publication Year
2023
Genre
History, Political Science
Number of Pages
288 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
20.8 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Ds797.56.Z546z43
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Erudite and compelling. With never-been-told stories and innovative applications of the 'glocalization' concept, Zhang leaves readers with a visceral understanding of time and place in nineteenth-century Zhenjiang. This will be a major contribution to both modern Chinese history and the burgeoning field of global studies., Crucial, agenda-setting history. In a field that has traditionally focused on the countryside or large cosmopolitan hubs like Shanghai, work on medium-sized cities is scarce. Zhang's impressive research on Zhenjiang not only illuminates an intermediate link in the chain connecting treaty ports to village China; it also humanizes the abstract process of globalization, revealing how locals emerged as cocreators of a globally embedded city., An exemplary book that significantly contributes to our understanding of not only China's important transition in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries but also the extension of global linkages through war, commerce, and technology. By showing how global changes were deeply intertwined with local reality, Zhang successfully demonstrates that the interaction between the two is nonetheless a negotiation., Crucial, agenda-setting history. In a field that has traditionally focused on the countryside or large cosmopolitan hubs like Shanghai, work on medium-sized cities is scarce. Zhang's impressive research on Zhenjiang not only illuminates an intermediate link in the chain connecting treaty ports to village China; it also humanizes the abstract process of globalization, revealing how locals emerged as co-creators of a globally embedded city.
Lccn
2022-032511
Dewey Decimal
951/.136
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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