analyses the feeble state capacity of Qing China questioning the so-called “High Qing” (shèng qīng 盛清) era’s economic … 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. …

the respective roles of China, Japan, and Korea, nor the unresolved disputes about Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the islands in … the South China Sea. This edited volume addresses the role of power in regional integration in three contexts: (1) the … role of hegemonic external actors (the US and China) in regional integration; (2) the role of core states within regions …