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    Corporate Conquests : Business, the State, and the Origins of Ethnic Inequality in Southwest China (2020)
    Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press
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    ISBN: 9781503612174
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (304 p)
    Edition: [Online-Ausgabe]
    DDC: 305.800951/509041
    Keywords: Corporations History ; Minorities Economic conditions 19th century ; Minorities Economic conditions 20th century ; HISTORY / Asia / General
    Abstract: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: From Muleteers to Millionaires: The Rise of Private Corporations -- Chapter 1: The Muleteers -- Chapter 2: Families -- Chapter 3: The Revolutionaries -- Chapter 4: The Excluded -- Part II: The Place of the State: The Rise of State Corporations -- Chapter 5: Mining -- Chapter 6: The Technocrat -- Chapter 7: Corporations, the State, and Ethnic Difference -- Epilogue: Conquest of Corporations -- Appendix: Tin Production and Silk Exports -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
    Abstract: Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to resources, and recent political developments. In Corporate Conquests, C. Patterson Giersch provides a desperately-needed challenge to these conventional understandings by tracing the disempowerment of minority communities to the very beginnings of China's modern development. Focusing on the emergence of private and state corporations in Yunnan Province during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the book reveals how entrepreneurs centralized corporate power even as they expanded their businesses throughout the Southwest and into Tibet, Southeast Asia, and eastern China. Bringing wealth and cosmopolitan lifestyles to their hometowns, the merchant-owners also gained greater access to commodities at the expense of the Southwest's many indigenous minority communities. Meanwhile, new concepts of development shaped the creation of state-run corporations, which further concentrated resources in the hands of outsiders. The book reveals how important new ideas and structures of power, now central to the Communist Party's repertoire of rule and oppression, were forged, not along China's east coast, but along the nation's internal borderlands. It is a must-read for anyone wishing to learn about China's unique state capitalism and its contribution to inequality
    Note: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English
    DOI: 10.1515/9781503612174
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    Corporate conquests : business, the state, and the origins of ethnic inequality in Southwest China (2020)
    Stanford, California : Stanford University Press
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    ISBN: 9781503612167 , 9781503611641
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 284 Seiten , Illustrationen, Karten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 305.800951/509041
    RVK:
    LB 48440
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    MH 50968
    Keywords: Geschichte 1870-1949 ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Nationale Minderheit ; China ; Minorities / China, Southwest / Economic conditions / 19th century ; Minorities / China, Southwest / Economic conditions / 20th century ; Corporations / China, Southwest / History ; China, Southwest / Economic conditions / 19th century ; China, Southwest / Economic conditions / 20th century ; China, Southwest / Commerce / History ; China, Southwest / Ethnic relations / History ; China Südwest ; Nationale Minderheit ; Soziale Ungleichheit ; Geschichte 1870-1949
    Abstract: The Muleteers -- Families -- The revolutionaries -- The excluded -- Mining -- The technocrat -- Corporations, the state, and ethnic difference
    Abstract: "In spite of state-led measures to reduce poverty and underdevelopment, tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in certain areas of China -- especially the rural, largely minority regions of the northwest and southwest. Such gaps are commonly attributed to geography and access to resources. But in Corporate Conquests, C. Patterson Giersch points to a historical disempowerment of these regions to suggest that China's minority communities have been underserved by economic development as well as state perception and location. Focusing on corporations as an agent of development, and subsequent ethnic marginalization, in the borderlands, the book posits the inequalities seen there today as originating in commercial and political changes between the 1870s and the 1940s. Not only did these communities become more deeply engaged in trade networks during this time, they were also subjected to urban-oriented nationbuilding projects that fundamentally undermined minority leadership. This resulted in state-owned enterprises controlling large shares of rural economies. By examining the rise of the corporation within the framework of persistent ethnic inequality, the book reveals how important new concepts about modern state power were forged in the pre-Communist borderlands"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 3
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    Article
    Cotton, copper, and caravans : trade and the transformation of Southwest China (2011)
    In:  Chinese circulations (2011), Seite 37-61 | year:2011 | pages:37-61
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    ISBN: 9780822349037
    Language: Undetermined
    Titel der Quelle: Chinese circulations
    Publ. der Quelle: Durham, NC [u.a.] : Duke Univ. Press, 2011
    Angaben zur Quelle: (2011), Seite 37-61
    Angaben zur Quelle: year:2011
    Angaben zur Quelle: pages:37-61
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    Book
    Asian borderlands : the transformation of Qing China's Yunnan frontier (2006)
    Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.] : Harvard University Press
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    ISBN: 9780674021716 , 0674021711
    Language: English
    Pages: XVI, 308 S. , Ill., Kt. , 25cm
    DDC: 951.35
    RVK:
    LB 74440
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    NO 8500
    Keywords: Tai (Southeast Asian people) History ; China ; Yunnan Sheng ; Thai͏̈ (Peuple d'Asie du Sud-Est) - Chine - Yunnan (Sheng) - Histoire ; Yunnan (Chine : Sheng) - Relations interethniques - Histoire ; Tai (Southeast Asian people) China ; Yunnan Sheng ; History ; Yunnan Sheng (China) Ethnic relations ; History ; Yunnan Sheng (China) Ethnic relations ; History ; China ; Yunnan ; Thai ; Qingdynastie ; Geschichte 1644-1900
    Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-302) and index. - Formerly CIP
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