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Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia - The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620-1720 (Paperback)
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Conflict and Commerce in Maritime East Asia - The Zheng Family and the Shaping of the Modern World, c.1620-1720 (Paperback)
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The Zheng family of merchants and militarists emerged from the
tumultuous seventeenth century amid a severe economic depression, a
harrowing dynastic transition from the ethnic Chinese Ming to the
Manchu Qing, and the first wave of European expansion into East
Asia. Under four generations of leaders over six decades, the Zheng
had come to dominate trade across the China Seas. Their average
annual earnings matched, and at times exceeded, those of their
fiercest rivals: the Dutch East India Company. Although nominally
loyal to the Ming in its doomed struggle against the Manchus, the
Zheng eventually forged an autonomous territorial state based on
Taiwan with the potential to encompass the family's entire economic
sphere of influence. Through the story of the Zheng, Xing Hang
provides a fresh perspective on the economic divergence of early
modern China from western Europe, its twenty-first-century
resurgence, and the meaning of a Chinese identity outside China.
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