Global History with Chinese Characteristics: Autocratic States along the Silk Road in the Decline of the Spanish and Qing Empires 1680-1796

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This open access book considers a pivotal era in Chinese history from a global perspective. This book’s insight into Chinese and international history offers timely and challenging perspectives on initiatives like Chinese characteristics , The New Silk Road and One Belt, One Road in broad historical context. Global History with Chinese Characteristics analyses the feeble state capacity of Qing China questioning the so-called High Qing (sheng qing
) era’s economic prosperity as the political system was set into a power paradox or supremacy dilemma . This is a new thesis introduced by the author demonstrating that interventionist states entail weak governance. Macao and Marseille as a new case study aims to compare Mediterranean and South China markets to provide new insights into both modern eras’ rising trade networks, non-official institutions and interventionist impulses of autocratic states such as China’s Qing and Spain’s Bourbon empires.