The Qing opening to the ocean : Chinese maritime policies, 1684-1757

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The Qing opening to the ocean : Chinese maritime policies, 1684-1757

Gang Zhao

(Perspectives on the global past)

University of Hawaiʿi Press, c2013

  • : cloth

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Bibliography: p. 235-261

Includes index

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Did China drive or resist the early wave of globalisation? Some scholars insist that China contributed nothing to the rise of the global economy that began around 1500. Others have placed China at the center of global integration. Neither side, though, has paid attention to the complex story of China’s maritime policies. Drawing on sources from China, Japan, Korea, Vietnam, and the West, this important new work systematically explores the evolution of imperial Qing maritime policy from 1684 to 1757 and sets its findings in the context of early globalisation. Gang Zhao argues that rather than constrain private maritime trade, globalisation drove it forward, linking the Song and Yuan dynasties to a dynamic world system. As bold Chinese merchants began to dominate East Asian trade, officials and emperors came to see private trade as the solution to the daunting economic and social challenges of the day. The ascent of maritime business convinced the Kangzi emperor to open the coast to international trade, putting an end to the tribute trade system. Zhao’s study details China’s unique contribution to early globalisation, the pattern of which differs significantly from the European experience. It offers impressive insights on the rise of the Asian trade network, the emergence of Shanghai as Asia’s commercial hub, and the spread of a regional Chinese diaspora. To understand the place of China in the early modern world, how modernity came to China, and early globalisation and the rise of the Asian trade network, The Qing Opening to the Ocean is essential reading.

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