The salt merchants of Tianjin : state-making and civil society in late Imperial China / Kwan Man Bun.
Publication details: Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, c2001.Description: viii, 239 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN:- 0824822757 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780824822750 (cloth : alk. paper)
- Salt industry and trade -- Political aspects -- China -- Tianjin -- History
- Merchants -- Political activity -- China -- Tianjin -- History
- Government monopolies -- China -- Tianjin -- History
- Salt -- Taxation -- China -- Tianjin -- History
- Taxes, Farming of -- China -- Tianjin -- History
- China -- History -- 1861-1912
- Zouthandel
- Belastingen
- Staatsvorming
- 381/.456644/095115409034 21
- HD9213.C43 T525 2001
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-227) and index.
The City -- The Gabelle and Business -- The Household and the Law -- Merchant Culture -- Social Services -- Changing Times -- Shifting Politics -- The Crash.
"In this the first detailed study in English of the mercantile activities and social role of Tianjin's salt merchants, Kwan Man Bun reveals how they helped stabilize the city and assumed many civic responsibilities, providing relief, charities, and other services to their fellow citizenry. Although these developments resemble the emergence of an idealized "public sphere" as in Europe, Kwan makes clear that Tianjin's social changes were not grounded on "rational discourse" but rather drew their strength and continuity from merchant networks based on exclusivity, wealth, education, and kinship.
Modernity, moreover, was not kind to this local articulation of Chinese "civil society." While the city endured the ravages of civil war and foreign invasions in the late Qing, both officials and intellectuals advocated the reassertion of state authority to re-create a strong and corporatist state capable of revitalizing the country. The forced bankruptcy of several leading salt merchants and the re-nationalization of their monopolies in 1911 signaled a fundamental shift in state-society relations, abrogating in the process centuries of "useful compromises" that had once integrated the two."--BOOK JACKET.
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