The Road Taken: China’s Incorporation Process into the Capitalist World System and Its Capitalist Transition - Couverture souple

Ru, Sung Hee

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798855803068

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 2026

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Sung Hee Ru is Assistant Professor at Bright College, University of Hankyong National University, South Korea.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798855803068
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 414
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