Coercive commerce : global capital and imperial governance at the end of the Qing Empire / Stacie A. Kent.

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Coercive commerce : global capital and imperial governance at the end of the Qing Empire / Stacie A. Kent.

9789888876327 (electronic bk.)
9888876325 (electronic bk.)
9789888876754
9888876759

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, 2025.

English

1 online resource (280 pages)

10.2307/jj.34206974 doi

HF3836

951.035

"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’ pocket-books, 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 space where global circuits of capital could circulate and reproduce at 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, this book will interest historians of capital and modern China alike."-- Provided by publisher.

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