Sugar And Society In China

Author : Sucheta Mazumdar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 682 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684170258

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Sugar and Society in China by Sucheta Mazumdar Pdf

In this wide-ranging study, Sucheta Mazumdar offers a new answer to the fundamental question of why China, universally acknowledged one of the most developed economies in the world through the mid-eighteenth century, paused in this development process in the nineteenth. Focusing on cane-sugar production, domestic and international trade, technology, and the history of consumption for over a thousand years as a means of framing the larger questions, the author shows that the economy of late imperial China was not stagnant, nor was the state suppressing trade; indeed, China was integrated into the world market well before the Opium War. But clearly the trajectory of development did not transform the social organization of production or set in motion sustained economic growth.

Author : Hsiao-t'i Li
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171019

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Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China by Hsiao-t'i Li Pdf

"Popular operas in late imperial China were a major part of daily entertainment, and were also important for transmitting knowledge of Chinese culture and values. In the twentieth century, however, Chinese operas went through significant changes. During the first four decades of the 1900s, led by Xin Wutai (New Stage) of Shanghai and Yisushe of Xi’an, theaters all over China experimented with both stage and scripts to present bold new plays centering on social reform. Operas became closely intertwined with social and political issues. This trend toward “politicization” was to become the most dominant theme of Chinese opera from the 1930s to the 1970s, when ideology-laden political plays reflected a radical revolutionary agenda.Drawing upon a rich array of primary sources, this book focuses on the reformed operas staged in Shanghai and Xi’an. By presenting extensive information on both traditional/imperial China and revolutionary/Communist China, it reveals the implications of these “modern” operatic experiences and the changing features of Chinese operas throughout the past five centuries. Although the different genres of opera were watched by audiences from all walks of life, the foundations for opera’s omnipresence completely changed over time."

Author : James F. C. Hyde
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1340850486

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The Chinese Sugar-Cane by James F. C. Hyde Pdf

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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : China
ISBN : CUB:U183020106842

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Journal of the North-China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Anonim Pdf

Author : Emily M. Hill
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774816557

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Smokeless Sugar by Emily M. Hill Pdf

Part history, part biography, and part mystery story, Smokeless Sugar traces the formation of a national economy in China through an intriguing investigation of the 1936 execution of an allegedly corrupt Cantonese official. Feng Rui, a Western-educated agricultural expert, introduced modern sugar milling to China in the 1930s as a key component in a provincial investment program. Before long, however, he was accused of colluding with smugglers to pass foreign sugar off as a domestic product. Emily Hill makes the case that Feng was, in fact, a scapegoat in a multi-sided power struggle in which political leaders vied with commercial players for access to China's markets and tax revenues.

Author : Mark Anton Allee
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 0804722722

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Law and Local Society in Late Imperial China by Mark Anton Allee Pdf

Based on case files, this study explores the social significance of the traditional Chinese legal system, and investigates how people utilized the courts during the course of criminal and civil disputes. The author emphasizes the ways in which law shaped social and economic change and how in turn the legal code and court system were adapted to local realities.

Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, Shanghai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : China
ISBN : UOM:39015030676491

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Journal of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society by Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, Shanghai Pdf

Contains list of members.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : China
ISBN : CUB:U183020106949

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Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society for the Year by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Electronic
ISBN : DMM:057003569678

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Transactions of the Society of Arts by Anonim Pdf

Author : James F.C. Hyde
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382332440

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The Chinese Sugar-Cane by James F.C. Hyde Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Walton Look Lai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004412016

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Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar by Walton Look Lai Pdf

In Indentured Labor, Caribbean Sugar Walton Look Lai offers the first comprehensive study of Asian immigration and the indenture system in the entire British West Indies -- with particular emphasis on the experiences of indentured laborers in the major receiving colonies of British Guyana, Trinidad, and Jamaica. Exploring living and working conditions as well as the makeup of immigrant communities and their cultures, Look Lai offers a "dialectical pluralist" model of Caribbean acculturation that contrasts with the more familiar "melting pot" or "pure pluralist" model.

Author : Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : HARVARD:HNUQ23

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Transactions for the Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry in the Year... by Rhode Island Society for the Encouragement of Domestic Industry Pdf

Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Voyages and travels
ISBN : UCSC:32106010563523

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Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society and Monthly Record of Geography by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1861
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : HARVARD:32044105226153

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Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) Pdf

Author : Royal Agricultural Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LOC:00026916495

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The Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society by Royal Agricultural Society Pdf