Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth-Century China pdf

ويليام رووي مؤرخًا اجتماعيًا للصين الحديثة ، بمفهومي "الاجتماعي" و "الحديث" على نطاق واسع جدًا ، تمركزت أعماله في التاريخ الثقافي والفكري والاقتصادي والسياسي أيضًا. تناول أول كتابين له تاريخ القرن التاسع عشر لمدينة تجارية صينية داخلية رئيسية ؛ حصل الثاني على جائزة رائعة من جمعية التاريخ الحضري ، وجعله يشترك في الجدل حول مسائل "المجتمع المدني" و "المجال العام". كتب أيضًا كتبًا عن وعي النخبة الحاكمة لأسرة تشينغ في القرن الثامن عشر المزدهر نسبيًا ، وعن أنماط العنف الزراعي في مقاطعة صينية مزقتها الحروب بشكل اعتيادي على مدى سبعة قرون. مؤخرًا كتب تاريخًا تفسيريًا عامًا لأسرة تشينغ ، بعنوان الإمبراطورية الأخيرة للصين.

pdf Speaking of Profit: Bao Shichen and Reform in Nineteenth-Century China مجانا للكاتب ويليام رووي

In the first half of the nineteenth century the Qing Empire faced a crisis. It was broadly perceived both inside and outside of government that the “prosperous age” of the eighteenth century was over. Bureaucratic corruption and malaise, population pressure and food shortages, ecological and infrastructural decay, domestic and frontier rebellion, adverse balances of trade, and, eventually, a previously inconceivable foreign threat from the West seemed to present hopelessly daunting challenges. This study uses the literati reformer Bao Shichen as a prism to understand contemporary perceptions of and proposed solutions to this general crisis. Though Bao only briefly and inconsequentially served in office himself, he was widely recognized as an expert on each of these matters, and his advice was regularly sought by reform-minded administrators. From examination of his thought on bureaucratic and fiscal restructuring, agricultural improvement, the grain tribute administration, the salt monopoly, monetary policy, and foreign relations, Bao emerges as a consistent advocate of the hard-nosed pursuit of material “profit,” in the interests not only of the rural populace but also of the Chinese state and nation, anticipating the arguments of “self-strengthening” reformers later in the century.