Tributary System, Global Capitalism and the Meaning of Asia in Late Qing China

At the turn of the nineteenth century, global capitalism has introduced an unprecedented phenomenon: the reorientation of temporality and spatiality. Capitalist temporality and global space allowed Asian intellectuals to imagine, for the first time, a synchronized globe, where Asia became consciousl...

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Main Author: Ren, Zhijun
Language:en
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10393/23273