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Author : Ramon Hawley Myers
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2011
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781557291547
"Through eight empirical studies, this volume explores the interplay between institutional change and economic performance in a constructed model of the treaty port economy in late-Qing and Republican China"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Robert Bickers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317266285
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 : Rhoads Murphey
Publisher : U of M Center for Chinese Studies
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 35,42 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Assesses the disruptive effects of foreign treaty ports in nineteenth-century China
Author : Philip Thai
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,76 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : History
ISBN : 023154636X
Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People’s Republic, contests between state and smuggler have exerted a surprising but crucial influence on the political economy of modern China. Seeking to consolidate domestic authority and confront foreign challenges, states introduced tighter regulations, higher taxes, and harsher enforcement. These interventions sparked widespread defiance, triggering further coercive measures. Smuggling simultaneously threatened the state’s power while inviting repression that strengthened its authority. Philip Thai chronicles the vicissitudes of smuggling in modern China—its practice, suppression, and significance—to demonstrate the intimate link between illicit coastal trade and the amplification of state power. China’s War on Smuggling shows that the fight against smuggling was not a simple law enforcement problem but rather an impetus to centralize authority and expand economic controls. The smuggling epidemic gave Chinese states pretext to define legal and illegal behavior, and the resulting constraints on consumption and movement remade everyday life for individuals, merchants, and communities. Drawing from varied sources such as legal cases, customs records, and popular press reports and including diverse perspectives from political leaders, frontline enforcers, organized traffickers, and petty runners, Thai uncovers how different regimes policed maritime trade and the unintended consequences their campaigns unleashed. China’s War on Smuggling traces how defiance and repression redefined state power, offering new insights into modern Chinese social, legal, and economic history.
Author : Bin Huang
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
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Author : Robert Bickers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 40,28 MB
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317266277
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 : China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
Publisher :
Page : 924 pages
File Size : 24,41 MB
Release : 1893
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Author : Isabella Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108419682
An innovative study of colonialism in China, examining Shanghai's International Settlement as the site of key developments in the Republican period.
Author : Wolfgang Keller
Publisher :
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 39,2 MB
Release : 2016
Category : China
ISBN :
We employ a new, commodity-level dataset on the flow of goods between fifteen major treaty ports to estimate a general-equilibrium trade model for China around the year 1900. The distribution of welfare effects depends critically on each port's productivity, China's economic geography because it affects trade costs, and the extent of regional diversity in production because this affects the potential gains from trade. We utilize this framework to quantify the size and distribution of welfare effects resulting from new technology and lower trade costs that came with the treaty ports. Findings show that domestic markets resulted in ripple effects which transmitted the effect of the international trade opening beyond the foreign concessions. However, because differences in relative productivity across regions were relatively low, the welfare gains from domestic trade improvements were limited.
Author : Linda Cooke Johnson
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804722940
Contrary to pervasive conventional views that Shanghai was little more than a fishing village prior to its opening as a Western treaty port in 1843, this social history of Shanghai shows that the city was a major commercial port long before the arrival of the British. The author traces the development of Shanghai from market town in the Song dynasty and county seat in the Yuan period to a center of cotton production in the Ming era and important port city in the Qing dynasty. By the early nineteenth century, Shanghai was among the twenty or so largest cities in China. Drawing on diverse Chinese materials - gazetteers, tariff manuals, and other internal sources - the author presents a China-centered perspective that stresses trends and continuities in the history of the Chinese city and situates the arrival of the West in the context of existing Chinese institutions, government policies, and commercial establishments.