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Fear swept Zhenjiang as British soldiers gathered outside the city walls in the summer of 1842.
Already suspicious of foreigners, locals had also heard of the suffering the British inflicted two
months earlier, in Zhapu. A wave of suicides and mercy killings ensued: rather than leave their
families to the invaders, hundreds of women killed themselves and their children or died at the
hands of male family members. British observers decried an "Asian culture" of ritual suicide. In
reality, the event was sui generis—a tragic result of colliding local and global forces in nineteenthcentury
China.Xin Zhang's groundbreaking history examines the intense negotiations between
local societies and global changes that created modern China. In the nineteenth and early
twentieth centuries, world-historic political, economic, and technological developments
transformed the textures of everyday life in places like Zhenjiang, a midsize river town in China's
prosperous Lower Yangzi region. Drawing on rare primary sources, including handwritten diaries
and other personal writings, Zhang offers a ground-level view of globalization in the city.Far from
passive recipients, the Chinese leveraged, resisted, and made change for themselves. The Global
in the Local argues that globalization is inevitably refracted through local particularities.