Download or read book Law across imperial borders written by Emily Whewell and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-20 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the story of British consuls at the edge of the British and Chinese empires. By embracing local norms and adapting to transfrontier migration, consuls created forms of transfrontier legal authority.
Download or read book The China Consuls written by P. D. Coates and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1988 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too little attention has been paid to the overseas officials of Britain's imperial era. This book tells the story of one such body, the China consular service. The author is uniquely qualified to write the story. As a young man he was himself a consular officer in China, learned to speak and read Chinese with unusual fluency, and was on active service with a Chinese division during the Allied defeat in Burma in 1942. In retirement he has spent years inmeticulous research among the archives. Writing in a lively style, with an eye for a good story, he paints the service warts and all and brings back to life some outstanding men, some failures, and some black sheep. He shows what abnormal lives officers in the China service led. Their careers were spent in exile in an alien and far-off country. They had to protect law-abiding British from the Chinese and to protect the Chinese from British crooks and ruffians. They dealt interminably with Chinese officials whoinitially regarded Westerners as crude barbarians and who were resentful of Western imperialism. They encountered riots and civil wars, whilst home leaves were infrequent and costly, and separations from wives and children disrupted family life. These strains were too much for very many officers. In writing this book the author had the general reader primarily in mind, but it is not likely to be superseded as a work of reference for academic specialists in this period of Chinese history, and the administrative historian will find novel information about methods of recruitment into theservice and about Foreign Office adminstration. It sets a new standard for studies of this type.
Download or read book Consuls and Res Publica written by Hans Beck and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-08 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The consulate was the focal point of Roman politics. Both the ruling class and the ordinary citizens fixed their gaze on the republic's highest office - to be sure, from different perspectives and with differing expectations. While the former aspired to the consulate as the defining magistracy of their social status, the latter perceived it as the embodiment of the Roman state. Holding high office was thus not merely a political exercise. The consulate prefigured all aspects of public life, with consuls taking care of almost every aspect of the administration of the Roman state. This multifaceted character of the consulate invites a holistic investigation. The scope of this book is therefore not limited to political or constitutional questions. Instead, it investigates the predominant role of the consulate in and its impact on, the political culture of the Roman republic.
Download or read book Consular Affairs and Diplomacy written by Jan Melissen and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-07 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consular Affairs and Diplomacy analyses the nature of diplomacy’s consular dimension in international relations. It contributes to our understanding of key themes in consular affairs today, the challenges that are facing the three great powers, as well as the historical origins of the consular institution.
Download or read book The Chinese Repository written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book John Chinaman and a Few Others written by Edward Harper Parker and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Consuls and the Institutions of Global Capitalism 1783 1914 written by Ferry de Goey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century saw the expansion of Western influence across the globe. A consular presence in a new territory had numerous advantages for business and trade. Using specific case studies, de Goey demonstrates the key role played by consuls in the rise of the global economy.
Download or read book The China Who s who foreign written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Lone Flag written by John Pownall Reeves and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Hong Kong fell to the Japanese on Christmas Day 1941 Macao was left as a tiny isolated enclave on the China Coast surrounded by Japanese-held territory. As a Portuguese colony, Macao was neutral, and John Reeves, the British Consul, could remain there and continue his work despite being surrounded in all directions by his country’s enemy. His main task was to provide relief to the 9,000 or more people who crossed the Pearl River from Hong Kong to take refuge in Macao and who had a claim for support from the British Consul. The core of this book is John Reeves’ memoir of those extraordinary years and of his tireless efforts to provide food, shelter and medical care for the refugees. He coped with these challenges as Macao’s own people faced starvation. Despite Macao’s neutrality, it was thoroughly infiltrated by Japanese agents and, marked for assassination, Reeves had to have armed guards as he went about his business. He also had to navigate the complexities of multiple intelligence agencies—British, Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese Nationalist—in a place that was described as the Casablanca of the Far East.
Download or read book The Chinese Repository written by Elijah Coleman Bridgman and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Chinese Indentured Labour in the Dutch East Indies 1880 1942 written by Gregor Benton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-19 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive account of indentured Chinese labour in the Dutch East Indies between 1880 and 1942, particularly in its twilight years after 1917. The author shows that Chinese indenture started and evolved differently from other forms of bonded labour in Southeast Asia and globally, including its Indian and Javanese variants. This difference is reflected in its lexicon, which was in part special to the Chinese strain. Using fieldwork findings from the tin islands of Bangka and Belitung and the Deli plantations on Sumatra as well as archival materials in Dutch, Chinese, and other languages held in libraries in Java, Nanjing, Taipei, Hong Kong, and Leiden, this book presents cutting-edge research that sets out to contribute to the revising of our historical understanding of indenture.
Download or read book The National Status of the Chinese in Indonesia 1900 1958 written by Donald E. Willmott and published by Equinox Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, c1961.
Download or read book The Chinese Social and Political Science Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has annual indexes.
Download or read book Britain s Encounter with Revolutionary China 1949 54 written by James Tuck-Hong Tang and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Britain's recognition of the newly established Peoples' Republic of China in 1950 and the developments leading to the establishment of formal Anglo-Chinese diplomatic relations in 1954. The importance of the USA in Anglo-Chinese relations is also highlighted by this study. Based on archival materials and interviews, this is an attempt to apply a decision-making framework to study the formulation and implementation of Britain's China policy and to explore revolutionary China's conduct in international relations.
Download or read book Consular Convention with the People s Republic of China written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations. Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chinese Abroad Their Position and Protection written by Harley Farnsworth MacNair and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Also on microfilm. Salt Lake City : Genealogical Society, Utah, 1976. on 1 reel ; 35mm. --
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