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The Global in the Local: A Century of War, Commerce, and Technology in China

By Xin Zhang

Book information

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780674293137
DOI
10.4159/9780674293137
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3959687 bytes)
Pages
224\280
Time added
2023-08-15 05:06:09

Description

In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, world-historic political, economic, and technological developments transformed everyday life in places like Zhenjiang, a midsize Chinese river town. Xin Zhang explores the local negotiation of globalization through the experience of Zhenjiang’s merchants, entrepreneurs, and ordinary residents.

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