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      • Xing Hang, Brandeis University, Massachusetts
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      18 December 2015
      05 January 2016
      ISBN:
      9781316401224
      9781107121843
      9781107558458
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781316401224
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.61kg, 346 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 346 Pages
      • Subjects:
      East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Economic History
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    East Asian History, Area Studies, Asian Studies, History, Economic History
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    The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the Manchu Qing, and the first wave of European expansion into East Asia. Under four generations of leaders over six decades, the Zheng had come to dominate trade across the China Seas. Their average annual earnings matched, and at times exceeded, those of their fiercest rivals: the Dutch East India Company. Although nominally loyal to the Ming in its doomed struggle against the Manchus, the Zheng eventually forged an autonomous territorial state based on Taiwan with the potential to encompass the family's entire economic sphere of influence. Through the story of the Zheng, Xing Hang provides a fresh perspective on the economic divergence of early modern China from western Europe, its twenty-first-century resurgence, and the meaning of a Chinese identity outside China.

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    'What makes this book so valuable is that it brings together a huge amount of fascinating information based on a judicious combination of primary and secondary sources. It is accessible to a general audience who might not be familiar with the history of maritime East Asia. Hang is a great storyteller who excels at capturing the high drama of many-faceted interactions while keeping the complicated narrative clear and well organized.'

    Wensheng Wang Source: Ming Studies

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