Four Centuries of Imperial Succession in the Comprador Pacific

Autor:	Jason Oliver Chang
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	History 05 social sciences Commodity 0507 social and economic geography Assemblage (composition) Ecological succession 050701 cultural studies Genealogy Intermediary Social history Ethnology Icon 050703 geography computer computer.programming_language
Zdroj:	Pacific Historical Review. 86:193-227
ISSN:	1533-8584 0030-8684
DOI:	10.1525/phr.2017.86.2.193
Popis:	This article aims to open the discussion of U.S. imperialism and Chinese comprador intermediaries in the Pacific to an enlarged historical analysis of inherited empires. Beginning with the formation of trans-Pacific Spanish commerce and the specialized role of Chinese intermediary commercial brokers, I introduce the notion of the comprador Pacific as a historical framework to understand the succession of imperial states, overlapping racializations, and the maintenance of a territorial assemblage bridging Asia and the Americas. The figure of the Chinese comprador is centered as a social and cultural icon of the enduring material circuits of Pacific empires. The article combines a commodity history of silver with a social history of the Chinese middleman occupation, along with exemplary biographical vignettes of key figures involved in imperial succession in the comprador Pacific.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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