Southwest China in a Regional and Global Perspective (C.1600-1911)

Metals, Transport, Trade and Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-35363-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 9, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Monies, Markets, and Finance in East Asia, 1600-1900

The book Southwest China in Regional and Global Perspectives (c. 1600-1911) is dedicated to important issues in society, trade, and local policy in the southwestern provinces of Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan during the late phase of the Qing period. It combines the methods of various disciplines to bring more light into the neglected history of a region that witnessed a faster population growth than any other region in China during that age. The contributions to the volume analyse conflicts and arrangements in immigrant societies, problems of environmental change, the economic significance of copper as the most important “export” product, topographical and legal obstacles in trade and transport, specific problems in inter-regional trade, and the roots of modern transnational enterprise.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Theobald, Ulrich

Cao, Jin

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Preface
List of Figures
List of Maps
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors

Part 1: Space and Setting

1 Southwest China: Local Conditions and Economic Trajectories
Ulrich Theobald

2 Newcomers in the Eighteenth-Century South-West Frontier: An Introduction to the 1784 Huguang Huiguan Records
Fei Huang

3 Borders, Ethnicities, Brotherhoods, Provinces: Neglected Aspects of Qing Mining History
John E. Wills, Jr. (†)

4 Fuel for the Smelters: Copper Mining and Deforestation in Northeastern Yunnan during the High Qing, 1700 to 1850
Nanny Kim

Part 2: Metal and Money

5 Legal and Illegal Copper Markets in Eighteenth-Century Hankou
Roger Greatrex

6 The Copper Market of Hankou and the Illegal Trade of Yunnan Copper in the Mid-Qing Period
Yang Yuda

7 The Chinese Way of Minting: Comparative Perspectives on Coin Production before Mechanisation
Cao Jin

Part 3: Trade and Transport

8 Numeric Communication in Intercontinental Trade and Monetary Matters: Coins, Weights and Measures in China and East-Asia in Merchants’ Pocketbooks and Commercial Guides (16th–19th Centuries)
Harald Witthöft

9 The Story of the Mayangzi: Shipping and Technological Change in Qing China
Nanny Kim

10 The Illegal Trade in Saltpetre in Southern China in the Eighteenth and Early-Nineteenth Centuries
Roger Greatrex

11 Sichuan as a Pivot: Provincial Politics and Gentry Power in Late Qing Railway Projects in Southwestern China
Elisabeth Kaske

12 Yunnanese Transnational Business Firms in the Early Twentieth Century: Xizhou’s Yongchangxiang as a Case Study
C. Pat Giersch

Index

Über Autor(innen)

CAO Jin, (Ph.D. 2012) is a post-doctoral researcher in the field of Chinese studies at Tübingen University, Germany, and Peking University. Her scholarship focuses on questions of social and economic history as well as on the history of science and technology in late Imperial China.

Ulrich Theobald, (Ph.D. 2009) is Senior Lecturer for Chinese Studies at Tübingen University. He has published on military labour, war finance and logistics, monetary history, and border peoples. He currently works on changes in the appointment of local officials in 19th-century China.