China's War on Smuggling
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China's War on Smuggling by Philip Thai
Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China to demonstrate how defiance helped the state redefine its power. China's War on Smuggling traces how different regimes sought to police maritime trade and the unintended consequences their campaigns unleashed, offering new insights into Chinese social, legal, and economic history.
An exemplar of everything that scholarship on modern Chinese history can be. . . China’s War on Smuggling is a richly researched and well-argued tour de force. It links the macro to the micro, the domestic to the transnational, and the regional to the longer trajectory of modern China’s state building. Economic, institutional, and legal historians will all find much to like, and this volume will deservedly find its place on many a syllabus and many a bookshelf. * American Historical Review *
Philip Thai skillfully explores how smuggling remade the Chinese state by enabling it to establish better protection of its borders and its revenues and by standardizing regulations; he also examines the ways that political and economic disruptions constantly challenged this process. Thai weaves together a creative combination of social, political, economic, and legal history, ranging from a sophisticated technical discussion of tariff autonomy to a clever explication of the visual representation of smuggling in the public imagination of 1930s China. The combination of a broad theme—illicit economic activities interacting with state power—with many smaller case studies of smuggling incidents brings the story alive. -- Elisabeth Köll, University of Notre Dame
Breaking chronological and geographic conventions, this important book places Nationalist-period state-building and the struggle for sovereignty in a framework of the long-term growth of infrastructural state power in China. By linking the rise of policing, legal regulation of production and consumption, and government intrusion in the economy with the operation of markets and economic life, Philip Thai accomplishes the remarkable feat of a fresh perspective on China from the bottom to top. -- Brett Sheehan, University of Southern California
Thai makes important contributions across the fields of Qing, Republican, and PRC history, and his book will be required reading for scholars and students of late imperial and modern China. -- Peter Thilly * Journal of Asian Studies *
A well-researched and finely written first book by a historian well-versed in modern Chinese history as well as smuggling and state-building in a wider range of historical contexts. * Journal of Social History *
China’s War on Smuggling is a fascinating study of the complicated links between tariff policy, smuggling, and the development of the modern Chinese state. . . . Thai’s book will be of interest to economic and fiscal historians, but also to those concerned with how the Chinese state was able to strengthen its capacity to control markets and trade. -- Linda Grove * The Economic History Review *
Thai provides a fresh, insightful take on the development of the modern state during a period of dramatic change and challenges. China’s War on Smuggling will appeal to those interested in the history of commerce, law, and criminology in modern China. -- Laurie Dickmeyer * New Books in East Asian Studies *
Highly recommended. * Choice *
His work will be of interest for both historians and scholars of Chinese studies, especially those who seek to understand how defiance and repression shaped and reshaped state power in China. * Strategic Analysis *
A remarkable history of the Chinese state’s war against coastal smuggling from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *
Philip Thai skillfully explores how smuggling remade the Chinese state by enabling it to establish better protection of its borders and its revenues and by standardizing regulations; he also examines the ways that political and economic disruptions constantly challenged this process. Thai weaves together a creative combination of social, political, economic, and legal history, ranging from a sophisticated technical discussion of tariff autonomy to a clever explication of the visual representation of smuggling in the public imagination of 1930s China. The combination of a broad theme—illicit economic activities interacting with state power—with many smaller case studies of smuggling incidents brings the story alive. -- Elisabeth Köll, University of Notre Dame
Breaking chronological and geographic conventions, this important book places Nationalist-period state-building and the struggle for sovereignty in a framework of the long-term growth of infrastructural state power in China. By linking the rise of policing, legal regulation of production and consumption, and government intrusion in the economy with the operation of markets and economic life, Philip Thai accomplishes the remarkable feat of a fresh perspective on China from the bottom to top. -- Brett Sheehan, University of Southern California
Thai makes important contributions across the fields of Qing, Republican, and PRC history, and his book will be required reading for scholars and students of late imperial and modern China. -- Peter Thilly * Journal of Asian Studies *
A well-researched and finely written first book by a historian well-versed in modern Chinese history as well as smuggling and state-building in a wider range of historical contexts. * Journal of Social History *
China’s War on Smuggling is a fascinating study of the complicated links between tariff policy, smuggling, and the development of the modern Chinese state. . . . Thai’s book will be of interest to economic and fiscal historians, but also to those concerned with how the Chinese state was able to strengthen its capacity to control markets and trade. -- Linda Grove * The Economic History Review *
Thai provides a fresh, insightful take on the development of the modern state during a period of dramatic change and challenges. China’s War on Smuggling will appeal to those interested in the history of commerce, law, and criminology in modern China. -- Laurie Dickmeyer * New Books in East Asian Studies *
Highly recommended. * Choice *
His work will be of interest for both historians and scholars of Chinese studies, especially those who seek to understand how defiance and repression shaped and reshaped state power in China. * Strategic Analysis *
A remarkable history of the Chinese state’s war against coastal smuggling from the mid-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth centuries. * Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books *
Philip Thai is associate professor of history and Asian studies and director of the Asian Studies Program at Northeastern University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780231185844 |
| ISBN 10 | 0231185847 |
| Titel | China's War on Smuggling |
| Autor | Philip Thai |
| Serie | Studies Of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute Columbia University |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Columbia University Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2018-06-12 |
| Seitenanzahl | 408 |
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