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Author : Yuping Ni
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004324886
The first English research monograph on customs duties in China, ca. 1644-1911.
Author : He Bian
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691200132
"Traditional Chinese medicine has been practiced in various forms for more than a thousand years. Practitioners may heal patients with herbal remedies, acupuncture, massage, exercise, and modified diets. Even today, herbal medicines are of particular importance; Chinese pharmacies containing a vast array of remedies can be found in cities and towns the world over. This book is an interdisciplinary and cultural history of the concept of "pharmacy," both the drugs themselves and the trade in medicine, during the Ming and Qing dynasties of early modern China. This was a time of change for traditional Chinese medicine and for Chinese science as a whole. Many historians have argued that sixteenth-century China was a high point of scientific inquiry, followed by a period of intellectual decline. Though political and intellectual shifts led to a crisis of authority over pharmaceutical knowledge in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, Bian argues that this period of supposed intellectual decline was in fact characterized by numerous efforts to further refine and spread the pharmacological knowledge amassed in the Ming dynasty. She draws on a wide range of primary sources, but particularly through the study of bencao (pronounced "pen ts'ao"), a genre of encyclopaedic works, often called matteria medica or pharmacopoeia in the West, that collect information on medicinal substances. As the early modern Chinese Empire expanded and print culture became more widespread, the pursuit of medical remedies became a significant commercial enterprise. The author connects theory and practice of pharmacy during the Ming and Qing dynasties to broader developments in intellectual history, book culture, commerce, and taxation"--
Author : Matheus Alves Duarte da Silva,Thomás A. S. Haddad,Kapil Raj
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000929089
Through ten case studies by international specialists, this book investigates the circulation and production of scientific knowledge between 1750 and 1945 in the fields of agriculture, astronomy, botany, cartography, medicine, statistics, and zoology. In this period, most of the world was under some form of imperial control, while science emerged as a discrete field of activity. What was the relationship between empire and science? Was science just an instrument for imperial domination? While such guiding questions place the book in the tradition of science and empire studies, it offers a fresh perspective in dialogue with global history and circulatory approaches. The book demonstrates, not by theoretical discourse but through detailed historical case studies, that the adoption of a global scale of analysis or an emphasis on circulatory processes does not entail analytical vagueness, diffusionism in disguise, or complacency with imperialism. The chapters show scientific knowledge emerging from the actions of little-known individuals moving across several Empires—European, Asian, and South American alike—in unanticipated places and institutions, and through complex processes of exchange, competition, collaboration, and circulation of knowledge. The book will interest scholars and undergraduate and graduate students concerned with the connections between the history of science, imperial history, and global history.
Author : Paul A. Van Dyke
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888528356
Paul A. Van Dyke’s new book, Whampoa and the Canton Trade: Life and Death in a Chinese Port, 1700–1842, authoritatively corrects misconceptions about how the Qing government treated foreigners when it controlled all trade in the Guangzhou port. Van Dyke reappraises the role of Whampoa in the system—a port twenty kilometres away from Guangzhou—and reassesses the government’s attitude towards foreigners, which was much more accommodating than previous research suggested. In fact, Van Dyke shows that foreigners were not bound by local laws and were given freedom of movement around Whampoa and Canton to the extent that they were treated with leniency even when found in off-limit places. Whampoa and the Canton Trade recounts the lives of seamen who travelled half-way around the globe at great risk and lived through a historic period that would become the framework for subsequent encounters between China and the rest of the world. Were it not for the exchanges between the major powers and the Qing empire, the world—as we know it—would be a rather different place. Hence, Van Dyke’s command of data mining shows that Whampoa was a key pillar in the Canton System and, thus, in the making of the modern world economy. ‘Paul Van Dyke has transformed our understanding of the Canton trade. In this book, he brings his enormous knowledge of the primary sources to this study of Whampoa, the anchorage on the Pearl River used by all foreign ships when that trade was confined to the port of Canton, presenting “a view of the trade from the common seaman’s perspective.”’ —Evelyn S. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh ‘Paul A. Van Dyke wonderfully brings to life the drudgery and danger faced by the diverse men who worked the ships of the Canton trade. He skilfully fashions vivid images of the texture of their lives from danger to boredom, from illnesses and accidents to drinking and whoring.’ —R. Bin Wong, UCLA
Author : Pim de Zwart,Jan Luiten van Zanden
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108426992
Reveals how global trade shaped early modern economic, social and political development, and inaugurated the first era of globalization.
Author : Tonio Andrade
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691219882
From the acclaimed author of The Gunpowder Age, a book that casts new light on the history of China and the West at the turn of the nineteenth century George Macartney's disastrous 1793 mission to China plays a central role in the prevailing narrative of modern Sino-European relations. Summarily dismissed by the Qing court, Macartney failed in nearly all of his objectives, perhaps setting the stage for the Opium Wars of the nineteenth century and the mistrust that still marks the relationship today. But not all European encounters with China were disastrous. The Last Embassy tells the story of the Dutch mission of 1795, bringing to light a dramatic but little-known episode that transforms our understanding of the history of China and the West. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, Tonio Andrade paints a panoramic and multifaceted portrait of an age marked by intrigues and war. China was on the brink of rebellion. In Europe, French armies were invading Holland. Enduring a harrowing voyage, the Dutch mission was to be the last European diplomatic delegation ever received in the traditional Chinese court. Andrade shows how, in contrast to the British emissaries, the Dutch were men with deep knowledge of Asia who respected regional diplomatic norms and were committed to understanding China on its own terms. Beautifully illustrated with sketches and paintings by Chinese and European artists, The Last Embassy suggests that the Qing court, often mischaracterized as arrogant and narrow-minded, was in fact open, flexible, curious, and cosmopolitan.
Author : Arthur W. Hummel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1073 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : China
ISBN : 161472850X
Preface / by Hu Shih -- Editor's note -- About this new edition of the ECQP -- Biographies, A-Z -- Contributors -- A note on Quan Zuwang, Zhao Yiqing and Dai Zhen / by Hu Shih -- Collections of Qing dynasty biographies -- List of Qing emperors -- Pinyin/Wade-Giles conversion table -- Names in chronological order -- Index of names -- Index of books -- Index of subjects -- Materials added to the 2016 edition
Author : Trish Fulton,Jinyan Li,Dianqing Xu
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789810234478
Selected papers presented at the International Symposium on Reform of the Chinese Tax System, held at the University of Western Ontario, in London, Canada, in Aug. 1996.
Author : Paul A. Van Dyke
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789888083923
The theme of this volume is the American relationship with Macao and its region through trade, politics and culture, and the focus is mainly on the late 18th and 19th centuries. The essays address topics such as the role of the China trade in US pacific expansion and exploration, US consuls, smuggling networks, missionary and educational work, and American women's perceptions of China. In all of the encounters, Macao emerges as a central player, adding a new dimension to our understanding of Sino-American relations.
Author : Arlene Chan
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-20
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781459404434
The first Chinese immigrants arrived in Canada in the mid-1800s searching for gold and a better life. They found jobs in forestry, mining, and other resource industries. But life in Canada was difficult and the immigrants had to face racism and cultural barriers. Thousands were recruited to work building the Canadian Pacific Railway. Once the railway was finished, Canadian governments and many Canadians wanted the Chinese to go away. The government took measures to stop immigration from China to Canada. Starting in 1885, the government imposed a Head Tax with the goal of stopping immigration from China. In 1923 a ban was imposed that lasted to 1947. Despite this hostility and racism, Chinese-Canadian citizens built lives for themselves and persisted in protesting official discrimination. In June 2006, Prime Minister Harper apologized to Chinese Canadians for the former racist policies of the Canadian government. Through historical photographs, documents, and first-person narratives from Chinese Canadians who experienced the Head Tax or who were children of Head Tax payers, this book offers a full account of the injustice of this period in Canadian history. It documents how this official racism was confronted and finally acknowledged.
Author : 赵婧等著
Publisher : BEIJING BOOK CO. INC.
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9787552038620
本书收录《柳叶刀尖：西医手术技艺和观念在近代中国的变迁》《近代长三角邮政空间的演化：兼论长三角基层市场网络》《四部之学的转换与近代文章流别论的生成》《哲学社会科学创新、技术革命与国家的命运》等文章。
Author : Jeffrey M. Pilcher
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781134385812
Providing a comparative and comprehensive study of culinary cultures and consumption throughout the world from ancient times to present day, this book examines the globalization of food and explores the political, social and environmental implications of our changing relationship with food. Including numerous case studies from diverse societies and periods, Food in World History examines and focuses on: how food was used to forge national identities in Latin America the influence of Italian and Chinese Diaspora on the US and Latin America food culture how food was fractured along class lines in the French bourgeois restaurant culture and working class cafes the results of state intervention in food production how the impact of genetic modification and food crises has affected the relationship between consumer and product. This concise and readable survey not only presents a simple history of food and its consumption, but also provides a unique examination of world history itself.
Author : Kathleen López
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781469607122
In the mid-nineteenth century, Cuba's infamous "coolie" trade brought well over 100,000 Chinese indentured laborers to its shores. Though subjected to abominable conditions, they were followed during subsequent decades by smaller numbers of merchants, craftsmen, and free migrants searching for better lives far from home. In a comprehensive, vibrant history that draws deeply on Chinese- and Spanish-language sources in both China and Cuba, Kathleen Lopez explores the transition of the Chinese from indentured to free migrants, the formation of transnational communities, and the eventual incorporation of the Chinese into the Cuban citizenry during the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese Cubans shows how Chinese migration, intermarriage, and assimilation are central to Cuban history and national identity during a key period of transition from slave to wage labor and from colony to nation. On a broader level, Lopez draws out implications for issues of race, national identity, and transnational migration, especially along the Pacific rim.
Author : Christine Moll-Murata
Publisher : Social Histories of Work in As
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9462986657
This book, full of quantitative evidence and limited-circulation archives, details manufacturing and the beginnings of industrialisation in China from 1644 to 1911. It thoroughly examines the interior organisation of public craft production and the complementary activities of the private sector. It offers detailed knowledge of shipbuilding and printing. Moreover, it contributes to the research of labour history and the rise of capitalism in China through its examination of living conditions, working conditions, and wages.
Author : Sen Peng
Publisher : Paths International Ltd
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789814298056
This book chronicles the dramatic events that have taken place since China opened up to the world in 1978 and adopted a policy of economic reform. It records how economic policies were drafted between 1978 and 1991, brought into law, initiated and then im