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- catalog abstract ""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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- catalog contributor b11867439.
- catalog coverage "China History 1861-1912.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-227) and index.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "The City -- The Gabelle and Business -- The Household and the Law -- Merchant Culture -- Social Services -- Changing Times -- Shifting Politics -- The Crash.".
- catalog extent "viii, 239 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Salt merchants of Tianjin.".
- catalog identifier "0824822757 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog identifier "9780824822750 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Salt merchants of Tianjin.".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press,".
- catalog relation "Salt merchants of Tianjin.".
- catalog spatial "China History 1861-1912.".
- catalog spatial "China Tianjin".
- catalog subject "381/.456644/095115409034 21".
- catalog subject "Belastingen. gtt".
- catalog subject "Government monopolies China Tianjin History.".
- catalog subject "HD9213.C43 T525 2001".
- catalog subject "Merchants Political activity China Tianjin History.".
- catalog subject "Salt Taxation China Tianjin History.".
- catalog subject "Salt industry and trade Political aspects China Tianjin History.".
- catalog subject "Staatsvorming. gtt".
- catalog subject "Taxes, Farming of China Tianjin History.".
- catalog subject "Zouthandel. gtt".
- catalog tableOfContents "The City -- The Gabelle and Business -- The Household and the Law -- Merchant Culture -- Social Services -- Changing Times -- Shifting Politics -- The Crash.".
- catalog title "The salt merchants of Tianjin : state-making and civil society in late Imperial China / Kwan Man Bun.".
- catalog type "text".