Big Data and “New” Global History: Global Goods and Trade Networks in Early Modern China and Europe

Itinerario ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 1-26
Author(s):  
Manuel Perez-Garcia ◽  
Li Wang ◽  
Omar Svriz-Wucherer ◽  
Nadia Fernández-de-Pinedo ◽  
Manuel Diaz-Ordoñez
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Early Modern History ◽  
Trade Networks ◽  
Global Circulation ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
European Markets ◽  
Early Modern China

Abstract This paper introduces an innovative method applied to global (economic) history using the tools of digital humanities through the design and development of the GECEM Project Database (www.gecem.eu; www.gecemdatabase.eu). This novel database goes beyond the static Excel files frequently used by conventional scholarship in early modern history studies to mine new historical data through a bottom-up process and analyse the global circulation of goods, consumer behaviour, and trade networks in early modern China and Europe. Macau and Marseille, as strategic entrepôts for the redistribution of goods, serve as the main case study. This research is framed within a polycentric approach to analyse the connectivity of south Chinese and European markets with trade zones of Spain, France, South America, and the Pacific.

A Very Long Early Modern? Asia and Its Oceans, 1000–1850

2012 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-203
Author(s):  
John E. Wills
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern China ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Early Modern China

This article summarizes background changes that shaped interactions in the Pacific and Indian oceans before and during the age of steam; early modern China as an importer of exotic goods and exporter of skillful entrepreneurs; and early European naval competition, exploration, and settlement.

A Very Long Early Modern?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
John E. Wills
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Modern China ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Early Modern China

This chapter summarizes background changes that shaped interactions in the Pacific and Indian Oceans before and during the age of steam; early modern China as an importer of exotic goods and exporter of skillful entrepreneurs; and early European naval competition, exploration, and settlement.

Leading through ritual: Ceremony and emperorship in early modern China

Leadership ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 435-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gazi Islam ◽  
Macabe Keliher
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Analogical Reasoning ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Historical Case Study ◽  
Historical Case ◽  
Ritual Performance ◽  
The Qing Dynasty ◽  
Structural Aspects ◽  
Institutional Order

Ritual performance is well understood in organizational maintenance. Its role in leadership and processes of change, however, remains understudied. We argue that ritual addresses key challenges in institutionalizing leadership, particularly in fixing the relation between a charismatic leader and formal governance structures. Through a historical case study of the institutionalization of the emperor in Qing China (1636–1912), we argue that the shaping of collective understandings of the new emperor involved structural aspects of ritual that worked through analogical reasoning to internalize the figure of the leader through focusing attention, fixing memory, and emotionally investing members in the leader. We argue that data from the Qing dynasty Board of Rites show that ritual was explicitly designed to model the new institutional order, which Qing state-makers used to establish collective adherence to the emperorship. We further discuss the implications of this case for understanding the symbolic and performative nature of leadership as an institutional process.

A Review for Research on the Sino-West Hybrid Style Buildings in Early Modern China

2013 ◽  
Vol 671-674 ◽  
pp. 2285-2289
Author(s):  
Jing Luo ◽  
Wei Min Guo ◽  
Ying Huang
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Modern China ◽  
Detailed Review ◽  
Related Research ◽  
Modern Times ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Early Modern Times ◽  
National Style ◽  
Early Modern China

Given the research findings concerning the Sino-west hybrid style buildings in early modern China are abundant but are lack of systemic pectination, this paper analyzes the related research findings from an integrative and classified perspective, especially makes a detailed review on the early modern vernacular architecture, which possess the characteristic of local evolution, and the national style of Chinese buildings in early modern times. Furthermore, the paper points out deficiencies in previous researches in the early modern Sino-west hybrid style buildings, and puts forward the urgent problems must be solved.

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