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Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China
Hans Van de Ven
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Description for Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China
Hardback. Num Pages: 432 pages, 14 graphs, 20 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JH; 3JJ; HBJF; HBLL; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 158 x 30. Weight in Grams: 700.
Between its founding in 1854 and its collapse in 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue collected by China's central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China's harbors, erected lighthouses, and surveyed the Chinese coast. It funded and oversaw the Translator's College, which trained Chinese diplomats while its staff translated Chinese classics, novels, and poetry and wrote important studies on the Chinese economy, its financial system, its trade, its history, and its government. It organized contributions to international exhibitions, developed its own shadow diplomacy, pioneered China's modern postal system, and ... Read more
Between its founding in 1854 and its collapse in 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue collected by China's central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China's harbors, erected lighthouses, and surveyed the Chinese coast. It funded and oversaw the Translator's College, which trained Chinese diplomats while its staff translated Chinese classics, novels, and poetry and wrote important studies on the Chinese economy, its financial system, its trade, its history, and its government. It organized contributions to international exhibitions, developed its own shadow diplomacy, pioneered China's modern postal system, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231137386
SKU
V9780231137386
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About Hans Van de Ven
Hans van de Ven is professor of modern Chinese history at Cambridge University. He has written extensively on China's military history and the history of the Chinese revolution.
Reviews for Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China
Far more than an institutional history of the Customs Service, this book is effectively a complete new history of China's rocky entrance into the global political economy. There is no better book written at this level of historical research and archival detail on the subject of 'China and the West.'
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