内容简介

　　拉尔夫·戈莫里奖首次授予以中国与印度为主题的著作

　　入围国际亚洲研究学者大会(ICAS)人文学科最佳图书奖

　　中外知名学者专家仲伟民、梁小民、魏明孔、龙登高、罗茂锐郑重推荐

　　打破标准国别史叙述框架，展开大西洋外劳动生产与资本主义的大辩论

　　挑战西方经典政治经济学，揭示亚洲腹地经济生活与经济思想的大变革

　　没有比这更近乎完美的对称了：最初，来自印度的殖民地官员前往中国，研究中国茶叶的制作方法；在近乎一个世纪后，中国的改革者造访了印度茶区，并做了同样的事。

　　帝国的命数变化如何影响茶产业？反过来，茶叶如何在更宏大的政治经济学议程、国家的发展和对国外资本的抵制中发挥作用？中国与印度的观察者是如何逐步理解过去数十年来高强度全球整合进程中的冲突与巨变？

　　本书聚焦19世纪末、20世纪初全球市场下中印茶产业的激烈竞争，从全球史、经济史、比较史的角度书写，探寻跨大西洋史观外关于劳动生产政治、经济史观、资本主义与全球现代性的可能性。

　　作者以中国地方文献、清廷政客的奏章、清末文人的思想著作、殖民印度官方往来的信函、茶企业备忘录、印度文学等各类一手材料为基础，聚焦当时全球消费者热捧与投资者青睐的全球性商品——茶叶，刻画了一段中国手工造茶与印度机械制茶较量的故事，创新性地对比了中印从上至下各界人士为求生产转型与经济利润所择取的策略与路径，由此反映亚洲腹地早已置身于全球市场的同时也参与了资本的积累与循环。

　　叙事层面外，作者借助斯密、马克思等大家的理论旁征博引，旨在论证西方当时在奉行自由思想与市场的理念下，在殖民印度为求利润与积累，实质却隐匿地鼓励着不自由的劳动生产体制。这种思想政治与生产实践的矛盾，由此反映西欧经典的政治经济学不具普遍适用性。而中国各派文人学者则在西方经济政治学思潮与劳动集约型生产实践的浸润下，企图引导东方世界的财富观、日常生活及经济思想史在世纪之交的变迁，本书揭示了这种变迁背后复杂、多样的社会逻辑与理论逻辑。

　　作者简介

　　[美]刘仁威（Andrew B.Liu）

　　哥伦比亚大学国际全球史博士，现为费城维拉诺瓦大学历史系副教授。研究领域为近代中国史、跨国亚洲及全球史、政治经济及社会理论。目前致力于研究自20世纪后期以来中国及跨国亚洲在全球政治经济变迁中的位置。在西雅图出生长大，现居住于费城市中心。

　　译者简介

　　黄华青

　　清华大学建筑学学士、博士，现为上海交通大学设计学院副教授、博导。研究领域为全球聚居史、建筑人类学等，调查足迹遍及40余国，曾在国内外多个茶产区做田野调查。著有《茶村生计：一个福建茶村的空间与社会变迁》。译有《大吉岭的盛名：印度公平贸易茶种植园的劳作与公正》。

　　华腾达

　　90后青年学者。德国法兰克福大学经济学博士，同济大学工程管理学士。现任职上海政法学院讲师。主要研究领域为地缘经济、中西方商业和财政制度等。已出版英语学术专著Merchants,Market and Monarchy，德语学术专著Handel im Chinesischen Imperium der Frühen Neuzeit等。

Content introduction

For the first time, the Ralph Gomory Prize has been awarded to a book on the subject of China and India

Shortlisted for the International Congress of Asian Studies Scholars (ICAS) Best Book in the Humanities Award

Well-known scholars and experts Zhong Weimin, Liang Xiaomin, Wei Mingkong, Long Denggao, Luo Maorui solemnly recommended

Breaking the framework of the standard national history narrative, the great transatlantic debate on labor production and capitalism is launched

Challenge the western classical political economy and reveal the great changes of economic life and economic thought in the hinterland of Asia

The symmetry could not have been more near perfect: In the beginning, colonial officials from India went to China to study how Chinese tea was made; Almost a century later, Chinese reformers visited the Indian tea region and did the same thing.

How did the changing fortunes of the Empire affect the tea industry? How, in turn, does tea play a role in the larger agenda of political economy, the development of the country and the resistance to foreign capital? How have Chinese and Indian observers come to understand the conflict and upheaval of the past few decades of intense global integration?

Focusing on the fierce competition between the Chinese and Indian tea industries in the global market in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, this book is written from the perspectives of global history, economic history, and comparative history, exploring the possibilities of labor production politics, economic history, capitalism, and global modernity beyond the transatlantic perspective of history.

Based on Chinese local literature, the sonatas of the politicians of the Qing Court, the ideological works of the literati at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the letters of the official exchanges in colonial India, the memoranda of tea companies, Indian literature and other first-hand materials, the author focuses on tea, a global commodity that was popular among global consumers and investors at that time, and depicts a story about the competition between Chinese handmade tea and Indian mechanical tea. It innovatively compares the strategies and paths chosen by people from all walks of life in China and India from top to bottom for production transformation and economic profits, which reflects that the Asian hinterland has long been in the global market, but also participated in the accumulation and circulation of capital.

In addition to the narrative level, the author draws on the theories of Smith, Marx and others, aiming to demonstrate that under the principle of free thought and market, the West, in order to seek profits and accumulation in colonial India, actually but secretly encouraged the unfree labor production system. This contradiction between ideology and politics and production practice reflects that the classical political economy of Western Europe is not universally applicable. Under the influence of Western economic and political trends and labor-intensive production practices, scholars of various schools in China attempted to guide the changes of wealth views, daily life and the history of economic thought in the Eastern world at the turn of the century. This book reveals the complex and diverse social and theoretical logic behind this change.

About the author

[US] Andrew B.Liu

D. in international Global History from Columbia University and is an associate professor of history at Villanova University in Philadelphia. His research interests include modern Chinese history, transnational Asian and global history, political economy and social theory. His current research focuses on the role of China and transnational Asia in global political and economic changes since the late 20th century. Born and raised in Seattle, he now lives in downtown Philadelphia.

Translator's introduction

Huang Huaqing

She received her Bachelor's degree and Doctor's degree in Architecture from Tsinghua University. Now she is an associate professor and doctoral supervisor at the School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. His research fields include global settlement history, architectural anthropology, etc. His research footprints have covered more than 40 countries, and he has done field investigations in many tea producing areas at home and abroad. He is the author of Tea Village Livelihood: Spatial and Social Changes in a Tea Village in Fujian Province. Darjeeling's Reputation: Work and Justice in India's Fair Trade Tea Plantations.

Huatengda

Young scholars born after 1990. Doctor of Economics, University of Frankfurt, Germany, Bachelor of Engineering Management, Tongji University. He is currently a lecturer at Shanghai University of Political Science and Law. His research interests include geoeconomics, Chinese and Western business and financial systems. He has published monographs such as Merchants,Market and Monarchy in English and Handel im Chinesischen Imperium der Fruhen Neuzeit in German.