新书：Andrew B. Liu《茶业战争：中印资本主义史》

Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India

作者：Andrew B. Liu

出版社：耶鲁大学出版社

出版时间：April 21, 2020

ISBN: 9780300243734

页码：360 pages,

本书简介

A history of capitalism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century China and India that explores the competition between their tea industries

Tea remains the world’s most popular commercial drink today, and at the turn of the twentieth century, it represented the largest export industry of both China and colonial India. In analyzing the global competition between Chinese and Indian tea, Andrew B. Liu challenges past economic histories premised on the technical “divergence” between the West and the Rest, arguing instead that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capital accumulation across Asia. He shows how competitive pressures compelled Chinese merchants to adopt abstract industrial conceptions of time, while colonial planters in India pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. Characterizations of China and India as premodern backwaters, he explains, were themselves the historical result of new notions of political economy adopted by Chinese and Indian nationalists, who discovered that these abstract ideas corresponded to concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward a more flexible and globally oriented conceptualization of the history of capitalism in China and India.

作者简介

Andrew B.Liu，哥伦比亚大学历史学博士（2015），现任维拉诺瓦大学（Villanova University）历史系助理教授，香港大学人文社会科学研究所访问学者，他主要研究中国史、国际比较史和资本主义史。

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