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History and the Chinese Maritime Customs Service
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3630096 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Bickers (0000-0002-3663-7658, University of Bristol, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 691-723 |
| Publication date | 2006-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Modern Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-749X • E-ISSN: 1469-8099 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0026749x06002083 |
| OpenAlex | W2039457311 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 3 |
For John King Fairbank the establishment of the foreign inspectorate of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service was a key symbolic moment in modern Chinese history. His landmark 1953 volume Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast culminates with the 1854 Inspectorate agreement, which, he argued, 'foreshadowed the eventual compromise between China and the West-a joint Chinese and Western administration of the modern centers of Chinese life and trade in the treaty ports'. Without the CMCS, he implied, there could be no modern China. It was the 'the institution most thoroughly representative of the whole period' after the opening of the treaty ports down to 1943, he wrote. By 1986 he was arguing that it was the 'central core' of the system. 'Modernity, however defined, was a Western, not a Chinese, invention', he claimed, and Sir Robert Hart's Customs Service was its mediator
China · Compromise · Diplomacy · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Institution · Modernity · Political science · Service (business · Treaty · Chinese history and philosophy · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories · History · Japanese History and Culture · Law
Imperium in Imperio
Sir Robert Hart and the Writing of Modern Chinese History
The Blue Frontier
Chinese statistics
To capture a vanishing era
The Ambiguities of an Imperial Institution
The Chinese Maritime Customs at War, 1941–45
The Life Writing of Hart, Inspector-General of the Imperial Maritime Customs Service
| Citations per year | 0.44 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2008 - 2020 (13) |
| Highly cited | No |