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1 online resource (x, 332 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates). |
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text file |
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
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. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Zheng family.
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Zheng family. |
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Merchants -- China -- Biography.
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Merchants. |
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China. |
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Biographies.
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Merchants -- Taiwan -- Biography.
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Taiwan. |
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Social conflict -- East Asia -- History -- 17th century.
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Social conflict. |
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East Asia. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
17th century |
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China -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century.
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Commerce. |
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China -- Foreign economic relations -- Europe, Western.
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International economic relations. |
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Western Europe. |
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Europe, Western -- Foreign economic relations -- China.
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East China Sea -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century.
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East China Sea. |
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East China Sea Region. |
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South China Sea -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century.
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South China Sea. |
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South China Sea Region. |
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East Asia -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century.
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| Chronological Term |
1600-1699 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hang, Xing, 1982- Conflict and commerce in maritime East Asia. Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015 9781107121843 1107121841 (DLC) 2015024719 |
| ISBN |
9781316456729 (electronic book) |
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1316456722 (electronic book) |
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9781316401224 (electronic book) |
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1316401227 (electronic book) |
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9781316458648 (electronic book) |
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1316458644 (electronic book) |
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9781316458167 |
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1316458164 |
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9781107121843 |
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1107121841 |
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9781107558458 |
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110755845X |
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