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100	1		_aLiu, Andrew B., _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aTea war: a history of capitalism in China and India / _cAndrew B. Liu.
260			_aLondon : _bYale University Press, _c[2020]
300			_axi, 344 pages : _billustrations ; _c25 cm.
490	0		_aStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
500			_aAmazon IN-109682 Rs.3983/-
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 309-330) and index.
520			_a"Tea War studies the competition between the tea industries of China and colonial India as an exploration of the history of capitalism. Liu challenges previous histories premised on the technical "divergence" between the West and the Rest, arguing that seemingly traditional technologies and practices were central to modern capitalist development in the tea districts of China and India. He explains how the pressures of competition compelled merchants in China to adopt abstract, industrial conceptions of time, while in India colonial capitalists pushed for labor indenture laws to support factory-style tea plantations. He also explains how characterizations of China and colonial India as premodern backwaters 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 the concrete social changes in their local surroundings. Together, these stories point toward more flexible and globally oriented conceptualizations of capitalism"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aTea trade _zChina.
650		0	_aTea trade _zIndia.
650		0	_aCapitalism _zChina.
650		0	_aCapitalism _zIndia.
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