GECEM: Newsletter, n. 3 (Spring 2019)
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Global HistoryChina
Europe
Interdisciplinary
Digital Humanities
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Economic History
Proyecto GECEM
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Pérez-García, ManuelPublication date
2019-06-30Abstract
GECEM project reviews traditional scholarship which has attempted to answer big
questions such as why China did not develop at the same economic levels than northwestern
Europe in the first industrialization or why modern capitalism did not emerge in China. The
main aim of GECEM project is to analyze changes in patterns of consumption, and its
correlation with economic growth, through the introduction of western goods (from
European and American origin) in China such as potato, sweet potato, tobacco, red wine,
glasses for wine, clocks, mirrors and other luxury products, as well as the consumption of
Chinese goods in Europe such as silk, tea and porcelain, through the study case of two city
ports, Macao and Marseille.
The third GECEM Newsletter provides an overview of the academic results and actions of GECEM project.
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GECEM (Global Encounters between China and Europe: Trade Networks, Consumption and Cultural Exchanges in Macau and Marseille, 1680-1840), a project hosted by the Pablo de Olavide University (UPO) of Seville (Spain). The GECEM project is funded by the ERC (European Research Council)-Starting Grant, ref. 679371, under the European Union¿s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, www.gecem.eu. The P.I. (Principal Investigator) is Professor Manuel Perez-Garcia (Distinguished Researcher at UPO). This work was supported by H2020 European Research Council. This research has also been part of the academic activities of the Global History Network in China www.globalhistorynetwork.com.