Twentieth century colonialism and China : localities, the everyday and the world /
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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| ISBN: | 9781136450402 1136450408 9780203125458 0203125452 |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; List of maps; List of figures; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction : colonialism and China; Part I: Colonial governance and questions of identity; 1. Good work for China in every possible direction': The Foreign Inspectorate of the Chinese Maritime Customs, 1854-1950; 2. Negotiating the nation: German colonialism and Chinese nationalism in Qingdao, 1897-1914; 3. Things unheard of East or West: colonialism, nationalism, and cultural contamination in early Chinese exchanges.
- Part III: Late colonialism and local consequences9. Modernism and its discontent in Shanghai: The dubious agency of the semi-colonized in 1929; 10. Equality and the 'Unequal Treaties': Chinese émigrés and British colonial routes to modernity; 11. Hong Kong and the New Imperialism in East Asia, 1941-66; 12. The hapless imperialist? Portuguese rule in 1960s Macau; Bibliography; Index.