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Author : China. Statistical Department
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Exhibitions
ISBN : UCBK:C098848789
Author : China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : China
ISBN : CORNELL:31924023923182
Author : [Anonymus AC10210552]
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z297442800
Author : Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North-China Branch. Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : China
ISBN : MINN:319510023426341
Author : North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : China
ISBN : CORNELL:31924079446666
Contains list of members.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : China
ISBN : CUB:U183020106868
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : China
ISBN : PRNC:32101073674382
Author : Henri Cordier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590260717
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11312706
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z255292501
Author : John Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555061222
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455997
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z156154102
Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0231511876
Exotic Commodities is the first book to chart the consumption and spread of foreign goods in China from the mid-nineteenth century to the advent of communism in 1949. Richly illustrated and revealing, this volume recounts how exotic commodities were acquired and adapted in a country commonly believed to have remained "hostile toward alien things" during the industrial era. China was not immune to global trends that prized the modern goods of "civilized" nations. Foreign imports were enthusiastically embraced by both the upper and lower classes and rapidly woven into the fabric of everyday life, often in inventive ways. Scarves, skirts, blouses, and corsets were combined with traditional garments to create strikingly original fashions. Industrially produced rice, sugar, wheat, and canned food revolutionized local cuisine, and mass produced mirrors were hung on doorframes to ward off malignant spirits. Frank Dikötter argues that ordinary people were the least inhibited in acquiring these products and therefore the most instrumental in changing the material culture of China. Landscape paintings, door leaves, and calligraphy scrolls were happily mixed with kitschy oil paintings and modern advertisements. Old and new interacted in ways that might have seemed incongruous to outsiders but were perfectly harmonious to local people. This pragmatic attitude would eventually lead to China's own mass production and export of cheap, modern goods, which today can be found all over the world. The nature of this history raises the question, which Dikötter pursues in his conclusion: If the key to surviving in a fast-changing world is the ability to innovate, could China be more in tune with modernity than Europe?
Author : Hans van de Ven
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 54,9 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.
