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Author : Sir Robert Hart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 984 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Archives of China's Imperial Maritime Customs written by Sir Robert Hart and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 984 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hans Van de Ven
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231137389
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Breaking with the Past written by Hans Van de Ven and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-25 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1854 to 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue available to China’s central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China’s harbors and surveyed the Chinese coast. It oversaw a college training Chinese diplomats; translated legal, philosophical, economic, and scientific documents; organized contributions to international exhibitions; and pioneered China’s modern postal system. After the 1911 Revolution, the agency began managing China’s international loans and domestic bond issues, and in the 1930s, it created a coast guard to combat smuggling. The Customs Service was central to China’s post-Taiping entrance into the world of modern nation-states and twentieth-century trade and finance, and this is the first comprehensive history of the Customs Service’s activities and truly cosmopolitan nature. At times, the Service kept China together when little else did.
Author : Charles Alexander Gordon
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781017638608
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (386 download)
Download or read book An Epitome of the Reports of the Medical Officers to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, From 1871 to 1882 written by Charles Alexander Gordon and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Richard Smith
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684172942
Total Pages : 607 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Robert Hart and China’s Early Modernization written by Richard Smith and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-23 with total page 607 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As the Ch’ing government’s Inspector General of the Maritime Customs Service, Robert Hart was the most influential Westerner in China for half a century. These journal entries continue the sequence begun in Entering China’s Service and cover the years when Hart was setting up Customs procedures, establishing a modus operandi with the Ch’ing bureaucracy, and inspecting the treaty ports. They culminate in Hart’s return visit to Europe with the Pin-ch’un Mission and his marriage in Northern Ireland. Smith, Fairbank, and Bruner interleave the segments of Hart’s journals with lively narratives describing the contemporary Chinese scene and recounting Hart’s responses to the many challenges of establishing a Western-style organization within a Chinese milieu."
Author : Chihyun Chang
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135122334
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Government, Imperialism and Nationalism in China written by Chihyun Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : John King Fairbank
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813194288
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China written by John King Fairbank and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China's foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch'ing dynasty's foreign affairs several seminal interpretive histories, most notably his three-volume magnum opus, The International Relations of the Chinese Empire (1910-18). At the time of his death, Morse was considered the major historian of modern China in the English-speaking world, and his works played a profound role in shaping the contours of Western scholarship on China. Begun as a labor of love by his protégé, John King Fairbank, this lively biography based primarily on Morse's vast collection of personal papers sheds light on many crucial events in modern Chinese history, as well as on the multifaceted Western role in late imperial China, and provides new insights into the beginnings of modern China studies in this country. Half-finished when Fairbank died, the project was completed by his colleagues, Martha Henderson Coolidge and Richard J. Smith.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Municipal Gazette written by and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Catherine Ladds
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152611822X
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Empire careers written by Catherine Ladds and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service between 1854 and1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. In doing so it highlights the vast range of people – British and non-British, elite and non-elite – for whom the empire world spoke of opportunity. Empire careers considers the professional triumphs and tribulations of the foreign staff, their social activities, their private and family lives, and how all of these factors were influenced by the changing political context in China and abroad. Contrary to the common assumption that China was merely an ‘outpost’ of empire, exploration of the Customs’ cosmopolitan personnel encourages us to see China as a place where multiple imperial trajectories converged, overlapped and competed. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of imperial history and the political history of modern China.
Author : Ryan Martínez Mitchell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108498965
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Recentering the World written by Ryan Martínez Mitchell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive new account of China's entry into the global legal order and its role in helping to reshape it.
Author : Albert Feuerwerker
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
ISBN 13 : 9780674123014
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Chinese Communist Studies of Modern Chinese History written by Albert Feuerwerker and published by Harvard Univ Asia Center. This book was released on 1961 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preliminary Material -- General Works -- The Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties -- The Republic -- Economic History -- Intellectual and Cultural History -- Reference Works -- List of Publishers -- Index.
Author : Antony Best
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135181675
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book The International History of East Asia, 1900–1968 written by Antony Best and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12-18 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Robert Bickers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472949951
Total Pages : 577 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (729 download)
Download or read book China Bound written by Robert Bickers and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies. John Swire & Sons, a small trading company that began by importing dyes, cotton and apples from the Americas, now directs a highly diversified group of interests operating across the globe but with a core focus on Asia. From 1866 its fate was intertwined with developments in China, with the story of steam, and later of flight, and with the movements of people and of goods that made the modern world. China Bound charts the story of the firm, its family owners and staff, its operations, its successes and its disasters, as it endured wars, uprisings and revolutions, the rise and fall of empires - China's, Britain's, Japan's – and the twists and turns of the global economy. This is the story of a business that reshaped Hong Kong, developed Cathay Pacific Airways, dominated China's pre-Second World War shipping industry, and helped pioneer containerization. Robert Bickers' remarkable new book is the history of a business, and of its worlds, of modern China, Britain, and of the globalization that entangled them, of compradors, ship-owners, and seamen, sugar travellers, tea-tasters, and stuff merchants, revolutionaries, pirates and Taipans. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in global commerce, China Bound provides an intimate history that helps explain the shape of Asia today.
Author : Wong Lawrence Wangchi
Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
ISBN 13 : 9882370519
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (823 download)
Download or read book Translation and Modernization in East Asia in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries written by Wong Lawrence Wangchi and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how Western ideas, knowledge, concepts and practices were imported, adapted and even transformed into varied contexts in East Asia. In particular, authors in this rich volume focus on the role translation played in the processes of modernization in China, Japan, and Korea in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Author : Mary Tiffen
Publisher : Tiffania Books
ISBN 13 : 0957035306
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (57 download)
Download or read book Friends of Sir Robert Hart written by Mary Tiffen and published by Tiffania Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of expatriate life, rich in detail, as bold, bright women far from home pushed against the onerous restrictions imposed by Victorian notions of femininity. But the greatest joy of this book lies in what it shows us about relationships between Victorian men and women.
Author : Richard T. Wang
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810833500
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (335 download)
Download or read book Area Bibliography of China written by Richard T. Wang and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combination of scholarly, commercial, and popular interests has generated a large quantity of literature on every aspect of Chinese life during the past two decades. This bibliography reflects these combined interests; it is broken up into sections by subject headings, and cross-references refer the researcher to related topics.
Author : Robert A. Bickers
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742553958
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (539 download)
Download or read book The Boxers, China, and the World written by Robert A. Bickers and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multi-disciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer war, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and on the foreign imagination. The Boxers have often been represented as a force from China's past, resisting an enforced modernity. Here, expert contributors argue that this rebellion was instead a wholly modern resistance to globalizing power, representing new trends in modern China and in international relations. This volume will appeal to readers interested in modern Chinese, East Asian, and European history as well as the history of imperialism, colonialism, warfare, missionary work, and Christianity.
Author : Paul A. Cohen
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 1684171237
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (841 download)
Download or read book Fairbank Remembered written by Paul A. Cohen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-10-26 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was best known to the public as the dean of Chinese studies in the United States. John Hersey, Hanu Reischauer, Harrison Salisbury, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., are among the more than 125 friends, students, and colleagues to contribute to this volume. Each author attempts to capture the essence of the Fairbank he or she knew. The resulting pieces are alternately incisive, affectionate, intimate, deeply affecting, and hilariously funny. Fairbank Remembered is an endearing and moving portrait of America's doyen on China.
