The story of globalization in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as experienced by ordinary people in the Chinese river town of Zhenjiang.
Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842. Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard of the suffering the British inflicted two months earlier, in Zhapu. A wave of suicides and mercy killings ensued: rather than leave...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674278380
ISBN13:9780674278387
Release Date:April 2023
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:288 Pages
Weight:1.27 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 6.1" x 9.3"
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