Abstract:
Assistant Professor Stacie Kent, Boston College, spoke on Qing governance and economic systems in relation to the global history of capital. She related the critical theory of Marx’s infamous Capital to how the Qing system of goods operated, social reproduction rather than accumulation. This system worked until the British-led Unequal Treaties demanded systems of trade that prized accumulation and speed-up over social good.
Biography:
Stacie Kent is an Assistant Professor in the History Department of Boston College. Before Boston College, she was a Harper Collegiate Fellow and Assistant Collegiate Professor in the Social Sciences Division at the University of Chicago.