Profits, Power, and Legitimacy (Paperback)

Paperback. Maritime East Asia is a region with a long history of contest. In the 17th century, the Zheng family enterprise found success in regional trade and maintained a high degree of agency despite clashing pressures in the region from Manchu China, Tokugawa Japan, and European colonial powers. The Zheng organization was caught between regional interests and an obligation to continental politics, and ultimately collapsed. In this new pamphlet in the Regions and Regionalisms in the Modern World series, Xing Hang aruges that the Zheng family nonetheless "profoundly shaped the maritime Asian world region and the global order." The Zheng family enterprise occupied a critical position as a political authority and successful commercial operation in the complex space of maritime East Asia in the 17th Century. Xing Hang argues that the family "profoundly shaped the maritime Asian world region and the global order." Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…