| Description |
xiv, 330 pages ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-311) and index. |
| Contents |
Agrarian class relations and peasant history in the Southern Yangzi Delta during the Ming -- The view from the periphery: Tongzhou and the Northern Delta -- Historical trends during the Qing -- Shanghai, cotton cloth, and the shaping of Nantong's modern merchant elite -- Remaking local power: Zhang Jian's self-reliant path -- Extending the sway of commercial capital -- The politics of the peasant and the modernist paths in the late Qing-early republican years -- Constituting "semicolonial capitalisms": modern landlordism, commercial farming, and rural labor -- Subproletarianization in the industrial districts -- Conclusion: semicolonialism and the peasant path. |
| Summary |
"This ambitious work traces a social history of semicolonialism in late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century China. It takes as its central concern the intertwining of two antagonistic forces: elite constructions of modernity shaped globally, and an alternate line of peasant resistance and development." "The author's specific project is to unravel the multiple strands of the semicolonial process and thereby the dominant and alternative histories it embodied. In emphasizing semicolonialism as a structural context shaping events, the book opens up a pivotal but silent area in the history of modern China. In confronting the development of capitalism as a historical phenomenon and suggesting that its consequences for land and labor on a global scale need greater theoretical and historical scrutiny, the book forces a new understanding of China's modernity."--Jacket. |
| Subject |
Peasants -- China -- Yangtze River Delta -- History.
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Peasants. |
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China -- Yangtze River Delta. |
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History. |
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Yangtze River Delta (China) -- Social conditions.
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Yangtze River Delta (China) -- Economic conditions.
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Economic history. |
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Social history. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Added Title |
Semicolonialism in the Northern Yangzi Delta |
| ISBN |
0804729328 alkaline paper |
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9780804729321 alkaline paper |
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