The Road Taken: China’s Incorporation Process into the Capitalist World System and Its Capitalist Transition...

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Sung Hee Ru (Hankyong National Univ)

The Road Taken

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China’s Incorporation Process into the Capitalist World System and Its Capitalist Transition...

Sung Hee Ru (Hankyong National Univ)

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English

State University of New York Press
02 March 2026

General & world history; Asian history; Ethnic studies; Social theory

Traces China's transformations with a focus on China's incorporation process in the nineteenth century, which help to grasp the historical origins of China's capitalism.

As Europe's colonial powers reached China in the nineteenth century, they became so strong that China could no longer ignore them. Given that the unprecedented geographical expansion of the European system undermined a China-centered world order and brought unprecedented changes to Chinese society, an intriguing question—why and how the Chinese empire entered into the capitalist world economy—has attracted increasing attention among historians, historical sociologists, and world-systems researchers. Yet, there has been no comprehensive monograph touching on China's incorporation process into the capitalist world-economy. To rectify this, The Road Taken investigates China's incorporation process. Incorporation studies, based on world-systems analysis, aims to illustrate the long-term integration process of external arenas into the capitalist world-economy. Ru traces China's transformations with a focus on how incorporation process unfolded over the course of a century (1780s–1890s), which represents a watershed era in the relations between China and the capitalist world.

By: Sung Hee Ru (Hankyong National Univ)
Imprint: State University of New York Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 178mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 739g
ISBN: 9798855803068
Pages: 414
Publication Date: 02 March 2026
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sung Hee Ru is Assistant Professor at Bright College, University of Hankyong National University, South Korea.

Reviews for The Road Taken: China’s Incorporation Process into the Capitalist World System and Its Capitalist Transition

""This is an original contribution to the study of the coming together of two world-systems in the nineteenth century when East Asia was forcibly incorporated into the expanding Europe-centered system producing a nearly global single system for the first time. The book will be of great interest to world historians and to students of the evolution of interpolity systems. It also has important implications for prehending the contemporary situation of global society."" — Christopher Chase-Dunn, University of California, Riverside