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"Winner of the Bentley Book Prize, World History Association"
"[A] deeply researched study. . . . Distant Shores succeeds in its objective to further nuance the conventional narrative of China’s decline throughout the long 19th century by shifting the gaze to the southeastern littoral."---Yorim Spoelder, Asian Review of Books
"[An] excellent study. . . . This compelling work not only provides a fresh look at the rationale behind the first Opium War, but also importantly deconstructs the rhetoric of the widely accepted fundamental divergence of Europe and China supposed to have developed starting in the eighteenth century."---Bart Dessein, Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies

Distant Shores

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    A Hardback by Professor Melissa Macauley

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 18 May 2021
      ISBN-13 9780691213484
      978-0691213484
      ISBN-10 0691213488
      Also in:
      History Asian history Colonialism and imperialism Maritime history

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "Winner of the Bentley Book Prize, World History Association"
      "[A] deeply researched study. . . . Distant Shores succeeds in its objective to further nuance the conventional narrative of China’s decline throughout the long 19th century by shifting the gaze to the southeastern littoral."---Yorim Spoelder, Asian Review of Books
      "[An] excellent study. . . . This compelling work not only provides a fresh look at the rationale behind the first Opium War, but also importantly deconstructs the rhetoric of the widely accepted fundamental divergence of Europe and China supposed to have developed starting in the eighteenth century."---Bart Dessein, Journal of the European Association for Chinese Studies

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