Download or read book Decennial Reports on the Trade Industries Etc of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce and on Conditions and Development of the Treaty Port Provinces written by China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Report for 1822-1891 includes sundry maps and a sketch plan of each port; also statistical tables relating to the foreign trade of China.
Download or read book Decennial Reports on the Trade Navigation Industries Etc of the Ports Open to Foreign Commerce in China and Corea and on the Conditions and Development of the Treaty Port Provinces written by China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao written by Luman Wang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-21 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Shanxi piaohao—private financiers from the Chinese hinterland—in the economic and business history of late imperial China, forming the original theory of Chinese hinterland capitalism. Deepening the existing understanding of capitalist dynamics at work in the families and financial institutions of late imperial China, the book foregrounds the expansionist role played by Shanxi piaohao in transforming China’s market and trade from an agrarian empire to a modern nation state. In a departure for economic history, it also focuses on the histories of the people and their lifeworlds behind financial institutions, which have previously been erased by universal capitalist narratives. Persistent binary oppositions between coastal areas and hinterland; state and market; and institutions and families are each transcended in recounting the local histories of global capital in the marginalized countryside and borderlands of China. Based on a wealth of archival material and correspondence with Shanxi piaohao offices and branches, Chinese Hinterland Capitalism and Shanxi Piaohao will appeal to students and scholars of Chinese and economic history, anthropology, and postcolonial studies more generally.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Asiatic Library of Dr G E Morrison Now a Part of the Oriental Library Tokyo Japan English books written by Tōyō Bunko (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Modern Chinese Society written by George William Skinner and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book France and the Exploitation of China 1885 1901 written by Robert Lee and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1989 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of the development of the French imperial mission in China from 1885 to 1900. French industry and capital contributed to the construction of the great Fort Arthur naval base, and the Beijing-Hankou railway, and paid for much of Russia's encroachment in Manchuria. By 1900, French interests were diffused throughout China. Lee demonstrates France's preference for a policy of economic penetration rather than the establishment of a territorial "sphere of interest," and evokes a remarkable period of European territorial acquisitiveness and competition.
Download or read book The Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period written by Sze Hang Choi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong, Pearl River Delta and West River in the last two decades of the late Qing period, this work tells a vivid trading and competition story of previously unknown private Chinese traders and junk masters. This challenges the prevailing view of the domination of China’s maritime trade by modern foreign steamships. Making use of unpublished Kowloon Maritime Customs and British diplomatic records in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry Sze Hang Choi convincingly shows how these private Chinese traders flexibly adopted to the foreign-dominated maritime customs agencies and treaty port system in defending their Chinese homeland stronghold against the invasion of foreign economic power.
Download or read book Useless to the State written by Zwia Lipkin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1911, Joseph Bailie, a professor at Nanjing University, often took his Chinese students to tour Nanjing’s shantytowns. One student, the son of a district magistrate, followed Bailie from hut to hut one rainy day, and was grateful that Bailie opened his eyes to the poverty in his own city. However, twenty years later, when M. R. Schafer, another Nanjing University professor, showed his students a film that included his own photographs of the poor quarters of Nanjing, his students were so upset that they demanded his expulsion from China. Zwia Lipkin explores the reasons for these starkly different reactions. Nanjing in the 1910s was a quiet city compared to 1930s Nanjing, which was by that time the national capital. Nanjing had become a symbol of national authority, aiming not only to become a model of modernization for the rest of China, but also to surpass Paris, London, and Washington. Underlying all of Nanjing’s policies was a concern for the capital’s image and looks—offensive people were allowed to exist as long as they remained invisible. Lipkin exposes both the process of social engineering and the ways in which the suppressed reacted to their abuse. Like Professor Schafer’s movie, this book puts the poor at the center of the picture, defying efforts to make them invisible."
Download or read book Twentieth century Colonialism and China written by Bryna Goodman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Quest for Power written by Stephen R. Halsey and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China’s history in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has often been framed as a long coda of imperial decline, played out during its last dynasty, the Qing. Quest for Power presents a sweeping reappraisal of this narrative. Stephen Halsey traces the origins of China’s great-power status in the twentieth century to this era of supposed decadence and decay. Threats from European and Japanese imperialism and the growing prospect of war triggered China’s most innovative state-building efforts since the Qing dynasty’s founding in the mid-1600s. Through a combination of imitation and experimentation, a new form of political organization took root in China between 1850 and 1949 that shared features with modern European governments. Like them, China created a military-fiscal state to ensure security in a hostile international arena. The Qing Empire extended its administrative reach by expanding the bureaucracy and creating a modern police force. It poured funds into the military, commissioning ironclad warships, reorganizing the army, and promoting the development of an armaments industry. State-built telegraph and steamship networks transformed China’s communication and transportation infrastructure. Increasingly, Qing officials described their reformist policies through a new vocabulary of sovereignty—a Western concept that has been a cornerstone of Chinese statecraft ever since. As Halsey shows, the success of the Chinese military-fiscal state after 1850 enabled China to avoid wholesale colonization at the hands of Europe and Japan and laid the foundation for its emergence as a global power in the twentieth century.
Download or read book Economic and Social Development of Modern China written by Tongli Yuan and published by New Haven : Human Relations Area Files. This book was released on 1956 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Classified Catalogue of Books in European Languages in the Dairen Library of the South Manchuria Railway Company written by Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha. Dairen Toshokan and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the American Asiatic Association written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Treaty Ports in Modern China written by Robert Bickers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Opium Regimes written by Timothy Brook and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-09-18 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opium Regimes draws on a range of research to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation, but involved Chinese merchants and state agents, and Japanese imperial agents as well.
Download or read book Supplement to War Office Library Catalogue written by Great Britain. War Office. Library and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kaiping Mines 1877 1912 written by Ellsworth C. Carlson and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this second edition, Li uses two arguments. First, he maintained that the development of communications, mining, and industry would contribute directly to the army and navy and to the operation of ships, shipyards, and arsenals. Secondly, he argued that guns and warships alone did not make a nation strong; a further source of strength was the wealth to be gained through developing communications and exploiting natural resources with Western methods.
