Tianjin cosmopolis : an alternative history of globalization /
"At the turn of the twentieth century, the Chinese city of Tianjin served as the diplomatic capital of the Middle Kingdom. People from around the world ventured there to make a fortune, and the city's viceroy took the opportunity to turn the seat of his power into what we would now recogni...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Columbia studies in international and global history.
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| Summary: | "At the turn of the twentieth century, the Chinese city of Tianjin served as the diplomatic capital of the Middle Kingdom. People from around the world ventured there to make a fortune, and the city's viceroy took the opportunity to turn the seat of his power into what we would now recognize as a laboratory of urban "modernity." Pierre Singaravélou tells the story of how the city developed into an international hub in East Asia, one that prevailed even after the Boxer Rebellion in 1900 destroyed entire neighborhoods and led to the death of many Chinese civilians. In fact, in the Rebellion's aftermath, with a declared desire to modernize Tianjin and its surrounding region, Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Russia, Japan, Italy and Austria-Hungary founded the first international government of the contemporary era. Through cogent global and local historical analysis, Singaravélou offers a renewed vision of the origins of globalization which was, from the beginning, a collaboration between East and West"-- |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published as "Tianjin Cosmopolis: Une autre histoire de la mondialisation" © Editions du Seuil, 2017." Translated from the French. |
| Physical Description: | x, 368 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780231192002 0231192002 9780231192019 0231192010 |