{"product_id":"coercive-commerce-stacie-a-kent-9789888876754","title":"Coercive Commerce: Global Capital and Imperial Governance at the End of the Qing Empire","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn extensive analysis of the development of capital in Qing Empire China.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In 1842, the Qing Empire signed a watershed commercial treaty with Great Britain, beginning a century-long period in which geopolitical and global economic entanglements intruded on Qing territory and governance. Previously understood as an era of \"semi-colonialism,\" Stacie A. Kent reframes this century of intervention by shedding light on the generative force of global capital. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Based on extensive research, conducted with British and Chinese government archives, \u003ci\u003e Coercive Commerce\u003c\/i\u003e shows how commercial treaties and the regulatory regime that grew out of them catalyzed a revised arts of governance in Qing-administered China. Capital, which had long been present in Chinese merchants' pocketbooks, came to shape and even govern Chinese statecraft during the \"treaty era.\" This book contends that Qing administrators alternately resisted and adapted to this new reality through taxation systems such as transit passes and the Imperial Maritime Customs Service by reorganizing Chinese territory into a space where global circuits of capital could circulate and reproduce at an ever greater scale. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Offering a deep dive into the coercive nature of capitalism and the historically specific ways global capital reproduction took root in Qing China, \u003ci\u003eCoercive Commerce\u003c\/i\u003e will interest historians of capital and modern China alike.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Stacie a Kent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 9888876759\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9789888876754\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hong Kong University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/09\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Stacie a Kent","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46545913643263,"sku":"9789888876754","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5b84b2ea-bcad-435b-9ccb-afec0a62b22a.jpg?v=1738183681","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/coercive-commerce-stacie-a-kent-9789888876754","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}