The Grain Tribute System of China, 1845–1911
The Grain Tribute System of China, 1845–1911

Author: Harold C. Hinton

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1956-06-30

Total Pages: 180

ISBN-13: 1684171318

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The Grain Tribute System, which transported rice from the Yangtze Valley to the Ch'ing capital, Peking, declined as an institution during the nineteenth century. This thorough investigation connects the collapse of the waterway and the grain transported with the eventual fall of the Chinese empire a century later.

Global History with Chinese Characteristics
Global History with Chinese Characteristics

Author: Manuel Perez-Garcia

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-11-02

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9811578656

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This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like “Chinese characteristics”, “The New Silk Road” and “One Belt, One Road” in broad historical context. Global History with Chinese Characteristics analyses the feeble state capacity of Qing China questioning the so-called “High Qing” (shèng qīng 盛清) era’s economic prosperity as the political system was set into a “power paradox” or “supremacy dilemma”. This is a new thesis introduced by the author demonstrating that interventionist states entail weak governance. Macao and Marseille as a new case study aims to compare Mediterranean and South China markets to provide new insights into both modern eras’ rising trade networks, non-official institutions and interventionist impulses of autocratic states such as China’s Qing and Spain’s Bourbon empires.