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Author : China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Customs administration
ISBN : UOM:39015076048241
Author : China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1937
Category : Customs administration
ISBN : OCLC:684322418
Author : China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1939
Category : Customs administration
ISBN : UOM:39015076048571
Author : Isidore Cyril Cannon
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2009-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789622099616
The story of an Englishman who lived through the last years of the Qing dynasty, was trapped in the British Legation during the Boxer uprising and went on to occupy a number of senior positions in the Imperial Customs as Commissioner of Customs in various ports, Shanghai Postmaster and first Director of the important Customs College.
Author : Antony Best
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135181673
Constituting an impressive account of key themes in the international history of East Asia from 1900 to 1968, this book is an important contribution to the interpretive study of this crucial period of history. It offers economic, political and strategic perspectives and with a particular focus on Anglo-Japanese relations.
Author : Donna Brunero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134340941
This book provides an overview of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, focussing especially on its later years and in particular on the experiences of the foreign administration.
Author : Bryna Goodman,David Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136450396
Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China’s landscape defies systematic characterization. This book investigates the complexities and subtleties of colonialism in China during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, the contributors examine the interaction between localities and forces of globalization that shaped the particular colonial experiences characterizing much of China’s experience at this time. In the process it is clear that an emphasis on interaction, synergy and hybridity can add much to an understanding of colonialism in Twentieth Century China based on the simple binaries of colonizer and colonized, of aggressor and victim, and of a one-way transfer of knowledge and social understanding. To provide some kind of order to the analysis, the chapters in this volume deal in separate sections with colonial institutions of hybridity, colonialism in specific settings, the social biopolitics of colonialism, colonial governance, and Chinese networks in colonial environments. Bringing together an international team of experts, Twentieth Century Colonialism and China is an essential resource for students and scholars of modern Chinese history and colonialism and imperialism.
Author : Hans van de Ven
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231510523
Between its founding in 1854 and its collapse in 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue collected by China's central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China's harbors, erected lighthouses, and surveyed the Chinese coast. It funded and oversaw the Translator's College, which trained Chinese diplomats while its staff translated Chinese classics, novels, and poetry and wrote important studies on the Chinese economy, its financial system, its trade, its history, and its government. It organized contributions to international exhibitions, developed its own shadow diplomacy, pioneered China's modern postal system, and even maintained its own armed force. After the 1911 Revolution, the agency became deeply involved in the management of China's international loans and domestic bond issues. In other words, the Customs Service was pivotal to China's post-Taiping integration into the world of modern nation-states and twentieth-century trade and finance. If the Customs Service introduced the modern governance of trade to China, it also made Chinese legible to foreign audiences. Following the activities of the Inspectors General, who were virtual autocrats within the service and communicated regularly with senior Chinese officials and foreign diplomats, this history tracks the Customs Service as it transformed China and its relationship to the world. The Customs Service often kept China together when little else did. This book reveals the role of the agency in influencing the outcomes of the Sino-French War, the Boxer Rebellion, and the 1911 Revolution, as well as the rise of the Nationalists in the 1920s, and concludes with the Customs Service purges of the early 1950s, when the relentless logic of revolution dismantled the agency for good.
Author : Chihyun Chang
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135122331
The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, which was led by British staff, is often seen as one of the key agents of Western imperialism in China, the customs revenue being one of the major sources of Chinese government income but a source much of which was pledged to Western banks as the collateral for, and interests payments on, massive loans. This book, however, based on extensive original research, considers the lower level staff of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, and shows how the Chinese government, struggling to master Western expertise in many areas, pursued a deliberate policy of encouraging lower level staff to learn from their Western superiors with a view to eventually supplanting them, a policy which was successfully carried out. The book thereby demonstrates that Chinese engagement with Western imperialists was in fact an essential part of Chinese national state-building, and that what looked like a key branch of Chinese government delegated to foreigners was in fact very much under Chinese government control.
Author : Michael Dillon
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 862 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317817161
China has become accessible to the west in the last twenty years in a way that was not possible in the previous thirty. The number of westerners travelling to China to study, for business or for tourism has increased dramatically and there has been a corresponding increase in interest in Chinese culture, society and economy and increasing coverage of contemporary China in the media. Our understanding of China’s history has also been evolving. The study of history in the People’s Republic of China during the Mao Zedong period was strictly regulated and primary sources were rarely available to westerners or even to most Chinese historians. Now that the Chinese archives are open to researchers, there is a growing body of academic expertise on history in China that is open to western analysis and historical methods. This has in many ways changed the way that Chinese history, particularly the modern period, is viewed. The Encyclopedia of Chinese History covers the entire span of Chinese history from the period known primarily through archaeology to the present day. Treating Chinese history in the broadest sense, the Encyclopedia includes coverage of the frontier regions of Manchuria, Mongolia, Xinjiang and Tibet that have played such an important role in the history of China Proper and will also include material on Taiwan, and on the Chinese diaspora. In A-Z format with entries written by experts in the field of Chinese Studies, the Encyclopedia will be an invaluable resource for students of Chinese history, politics and culture.
Author : Robert Bickers,Isabella Jackson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317266273
This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports – the key strategic places on China’s coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities. Topics covered include land and how it was acquired, the flow of people, good and information, specific individuals and families who typify life in the treaty ports, and technical advances, exploration, and innovation in government.
Author : Robin W. Winks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780198205661
This volume investigates the shape and the development of scholarly and popular opinion about the British Empire over the centuries.
Author : Felix Boecking
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684175727
"This book, an in-depth study of Nationalist tariff policy, fundamentally challenges the widely accepted idea that the key to the Communist seizure of power in China lay in the incompetence of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government. It argues instead that during the second Sino-Japanese War, China’s international trade, the Nationalist government’s tariff revenues, and hence its fiscal policy and state-making project all collapsed. Because tariffs on China’s international trade produced the single greatest share of central government revenue during the Nanjing decade, the political existence of the Nationalist government depended on tariff revenue. Therefore, Chinese economic nationalism, both at the official and popular levels, had to be managed carefully so as not to jeopardize the Nationalist government’s income. Until the outbreak of war in 1937, the Nationalists’ management of international trade and China’s government finances was largely successful in terms of producing increasing and sustainable revenues. Within the first year of war, however, the Nationalists lost territories producing 80 percent of tariff revenue. Hence, government revenue declined just as war-related expenditure increased, and the Nationalist government had to resort to more rapacious forms of revenue extraction—a decision that had disastrous consequences for both its finances and its political viability."
Author : Liang-lin v
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684171873
A compilation of the foreign trade statistics compiled by Chinese Maritime Customs, which began publishing such statistics soon after Westerners were appointed as its administrators in the 1850s. With the passage of time the quality and quantity of the publications were constantly improved.
Author : Dong Wang
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739152973
This study, based on primary sources, deals with the linguistic development and polemical uses of the expression Unequal Treaties, which refers to the treaties China signed between 1842 and 1946. Although this expression has occupied a central position in both Chinese collective memory and Chinese and English historiographies, this is the first book to offer an in-depth examination of China's encounters with the outside world as manifested in the rhetoric surrounding the Unequal Treaties. Author Dong Wang argues that competing forces within China have narrated and renarrated the history of the treaties in an effort to consolidate national unity, international independence, and political legitimacy and authority. In the twentieth century, she shows, China's experience with these treaties helped to determine their use of international law. Of great relevance for students of contemporary China and Chinese history, as well as Chinese international law and politics, this book illuminates how various Chinese political actors have defined and redefined the past using the framework of the Unequal Treaties.
