The Resource The salt merchants of Tianjin : state-making and civil society in late Imperial China, Kwan Man Bun
The salt merchants of Tianjin : state-making and civil society in late Imperial China, Kwan Man Bun
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- Summary
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- "In this the first detailed study in English of the mercantile activities and social role of Tianjin's salt merchants, Kwan Man Bun reveals how they helped stabilize the city and assumed many civic responsibilities, providing relief, charities, and other services to their fellow citizenry. Although these developments resemble the emergence of an idealized "public sphere" as in Europe, Kwan makes clear that Tianjin's social changes were not grounded on "rational discourse" but rather drew their strength and continuity from merchant networks based on exclusivity, wealth, education, and kinship
- Modernity, moreover, was not kind to this local articulation of Chinese "civil society." While the city endured the ravages of civil war and foreign invasions in the late Qing, both officials and intellectuals advocated the reassertion of state authority to re-create a strong and corporatist state capable of revitalizing the country. The forced bankruptcy of several leading salt merchants and the re-nationalization of their monopolies in 1911 signaled a fundamental shift in state-society relations, abrogating in the process centuries of "useful compromises" that had once integrated the two."--Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 239 pages)
- Contents
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- The City
- The Gabelle and Business
- The Household and the Law
- Merchant Culture
- Social Services
- Changing Times
- Shifting Politics
- The Crash
- Isbn
- 9780824865009
- Label
- The salt merchants of Tianjin : state-making and civil society in late Imperial China
- Title
- The salt merchants of Tianjin
- Title remainder
- state-making and civil society in late Imperial China
- Statement of responsibility
- Kwan Man Bun
- Subject
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- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing | General
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling | General
- Belastingen
- China
- China -- History -- 1861-1912
- China -- Tianjin
- Electronic books
- Government monopolies
- Government monopolies -- China | Tianjin -- History
- HISTORY -- Asia | China
- History
- 1861-1912
- Merchants -- Political activity -- China | Tianjin -- History
- Salt -- Taxation
- Salt -- Taxation -- China | Tianjin -- History
- Salt industry and trade -- Political aspects -- China | Tianjin -- History
- Staatsvorming
- Taxes, Farming of
- Taxes, Farming of -- China | Tianjin -- History
- Zouthandel
- Merchants -- Political activity
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce
- Language
- eng
- Summary
-
- "In this the first detailed study in English of the mercantile activities and social role of Tianjin's salt merchants, Kwan Man Bun reveals how they helped stabilize the city and assumed many civic responsibilities, providing relief, charities, and other services to their fellow citizenry. Although these developments resemble the emergence of an idealized "public sphere" as in Europe, Kwan makes clear that Tianjin's social changes were not grounded on "rational discourse" but rather drew their strength and continuity from merchant networks based on exclusivity, wealth, education, and kinship
- Modernity, moreover, was not kind to this local articulation of Chinese "civil society." While the city endured the ravages of civil war and foreign invasions in the late Qing, both officials and intellectuals advocated the reassertion of state authority to re-create a strong and corporatist state capable of revitalizing the country. The forced bankruptcy of several leading salt merchants and the re-nationalization of their monopolies in 1911 signaled a fundamental shift in state-society relations, abrogating in the process centuries of "useful compromises" that had once integrated the two."--Jacket
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1955-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Kwan, Man Bun
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- maps
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Salt industry and trade
- Merchants
- Government monopolies
- Salt
- Taxes, Farming of
- China
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
- HISTORY
- Government monopolies
- Merchants
- Salt
- Taxes, Farming of
- China
- China
- Zouthandel
- Belastingen
- Staatsvorming
- Label
- The salt merchants of Tianjin : state-making and civil society in late Imperial China, Kwan Man Bun
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-227) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The City
- The Gabelle and Business
- The Household and the Law
- Merchant Culture
- Social Services
- Changing Times
- Shifting Politics
- The Crash
- Control code
- ocn875895168
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 239 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824865009
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt62nsn3
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)875895168
- Label
- The salt merchants of Tianjin : state-making and civil society in late Imperial China, Kwan Man Bun
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-227) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- The City
- The Gabelle and Business
- The Household and the Law
- Merchant Culture
- Social Services
- Changing Times
- Shifting Politics
- The Crash
- Control code
- ocn875895168
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (viii, 239 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780824865009
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other physical details
- illustrations, maps
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctt62nsn3
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)875895168
Subject
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Marketing | General
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Sales & Selling | General
- Belastingen
- China
- China -- History -- 1861-1912
- China -- Tianjin
- Electronic books
- Government monopolies
- Government monopolies -- China | Tianjin -- History
- HISTORY -- Asia | China
- History
- 1861-1912
- Merchants -- Political activity -- China | Tianjin -- History
- Salt -- Taxation
- Salt -- Taxation -- China | Tianjin -- History
- Salt industry and trade -- Political aspects -- China | Tianjin -- History
- Staatsvorming
- Taxes, Farming of
- Taxes, Farming of -- China | Tianjin -- History
- Zouthandel
- Merchants -- Political activity
- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Commerce
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