Title Conflict and commerce in maritime East Asia : the Zheng family and the shaping of the modern world, c. 1620-1720 / Xing Hang (Brandeis University)

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (x, 332 pages, 2 unnumbered pages of plates) Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Contents Introduction -- 1. Setting the stage -- 2. From smuggler-pirates to loyal Confucians -- 3. Between trade and legitimacy -- 4. Brave new world -- 5. The Zheng state on Taiwan -- 6. The lure of "China" -- 7. A contingent destruction -- 8. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Romanization of East Asian Languages -- Appendix 2: Measurements and Currency Conversions -- Appendix 3: Zheng Market Share, Revenues, and Profitability, 1640-1683 -- Appendix 4: Glossary of Chinese Characters Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Zheng family. SUBJECT Zheng family fast Subject Merchants -- China -- Biography Merchants -- Taiwan -- Biography Social conflict -- East Asia -- History -- 17th century BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Exports & Imports. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- General. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- International -- Marketing. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- Trade & Tariffs. Commerce International economic relations Merchants Social conflict SUBJECT China -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century China -- Foreign economic relations -- Europe, Western Europe, Western -- Foreign economic relations -- China East China Sea -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century South China Sea -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century East Asia -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century Subject China East Asia East China Sea Western Europe South China Sea Taiwan Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316456729 1316456722 9781316401224 1316401227 9781316458648 1316458644 9781316458167 1316458164

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