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Traces China's transformations with a focus on China's incorporation process in the nineteenth century, which help to grasp the historical origins of China's capitalism.
As Europe's colonial powers reached China in the nineteenth century, they became so strong that China could no longer ignore them. Given that the unprecedented geographical expansion of the European system undermined a China-centered world order and brought unprecedented changes to Chinese society, an intriguing question—why and how the Chinese empire entered into the capitalist world economy—has attracted increasing attention among historians, historical sociologists, and world-systems researchers. Yet, there has been no comprehensive monograph touching on China's incorporation process into the capitalist world-economy. To rectify this, The Road Taken investigates China's incorporation process. Incorporation studies, based on world-systems analysis, aims to illustrate the long-term integration process of external arenas into the capitalist world-economy. Ru traces China's transformations with a focus on how incorporation process unfolded over the course of a century (1780s-1890s), which represents a watershed era in the relations between China and the capitalist world.
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Nineteenth-Century China, World-Systems Analysis, and China's Incorporation Process
1. Past Incorporation Studies and an Alternative Approach to China's Incorporation Process
2. China's Incorporation Process: Production, New Classes, and Geography
3. China's Incorporation Process: The Interstate System
4. Global Geopolitics: The Rise of Pacific Powers and Their Impact on China's Incorporation Process
5. China's Backlash Against the Penetration of the Capitalist World-Economy
Conclusion: The Development and Outcomes of China's Incorporation Process
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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