Place, History, and People -- The Battle of Zhenjiang -- The Invader and the Invaded -- The Nineteenth-Century Transformation -- Brokering Multiple Commercial Networks -- The Shanghai Commercial Network -- Steam Navigation as Means of Dominance -- The Role of the Steamboat -- Foreign Technology and Local Society
Summary
"Using as a case study the Chinese city of Zhenjiang, Xin Zhang examines three arenas from the 1830s to the 1930s-the Opium War, commerce, and technology (specifically steamship navigation)-to understand how global dynamics played out in China over the course of the century. A story of local Chinese sifting through external influences to determine what works for their society and what doesn't, a dynamic that runs right through to the present, The Global in the Local also illuminates the broader story of globalization and its impacts on ordinary people at the local level"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter platform, viewed March 15, 2023)
