Strenuous Decades : Global Challenges and Transformation of Chinese Societies...

by Choi, Chi-cheung (EDT); Shiroyama, Tomoko (EDT); Viana, Venus (ED

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Strenuous Decades : Global Challenges and Transformation of Chinese Societies in Modern Asia, Hardcover by Choi, Chi-cheung (EDT); Shiroyama, Tomoko (EDT); Viana, Venus (EDT), ISBN 3110673444, ISBN-13 9783110673449, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US The movement of goods and passengers between port cities not only stimulates growth in coastal trading networks and centers but also inevitably changes the social and economic lives of people in these port cities and, subsequently, of their fellow compatriots farther inland. Studies of port cities have focused on the interactive political and economic relationship between trading centers. The center of attention in this book is socioeconomic life and cultural identity, which are shaped by the movement of goods, people, knowledge, and information, particularly when the community faces a crisis. Transnational studies focus on cross-border connections between people, institutions, commodities, and ideas, with an emphasis on their global presence. This book looks at the responses of different localities to the same global crisis. It gathers a selection of the fifty papers presented at the conference on "Coping with Transnational Crisis: Chinese Economic and Social Lives in East Asian Port Cities, 1," held in Hong Kong on June 7-11, 2016. The period from the 1850s to the outbreak of war in the Pacific in the late 1930s encompasses two major transnational crises with significant impacts on the Chinese population in Southeast Asian

• ISBN: 9783110673449
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