Author: George Wingrove CookePublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
China and Lower Bengal
Author: George Wingrove CookePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
The Arrow War with China
Author: Charles S. LeavenworthPublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Friend of China
Author: Chinese Middlemen in Hong Kong's Colonial Economy, 1830-1890
Author: Kaori AbePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134846819
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
The traditional view of the Hong Kong colonial economy is that it was dominated by Western companies, notably the great British merchant houses, and that these firms enlisted support from Chinese middlemen – the compradors – who were effectively agents working for the Western firms. This book, which presents a comprehensive overview of the compradors and their economic and social functions over the full period of colonial rule in Hong Kong, puts forward a different view. It shows that compradors existed before the beginning of British rule in 1842, discusses their economic and social roles in the colonial economy, roles which included activities for Western firms, for the government and to support compradors’ own commercial activities, and outlines how the comprador system evolved. Overall, the book demonstrates that the compradors played a key role in the formation and development of Hong Kong’s economy and society, that they were active participants, not just passive servants of Western companies.
Visualising China, 1845-1965
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900423375X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 540
Book Description
How does China project its image in the world? Why and how has the world come to form certain impressions of the Chinese and their way of life? These are issues that preoccupy Chinese citizens in the globalizing 21st century as they travel overseas, riding on the capacity of the country’s newly acquired economic power. In Visualizing China, the authors join forces to launch a broader inquiry aimed at a synergistic understanding of the larger story of visuality in modern China. The essays cluster around several nodal points including photographs, advertising, posters and movies, spanning from the 1840s to the 1960s, and devote special attention to modern Chinese practices in the visualization of things Chinese.
Crossing the Bay of Bengal
Author: Sunil S. AmrithPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674728475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Indian Ocean was global long before the Atlantic, and today the countries bordering the Bay of Bengal—India, Bangladesh, Burma, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Malaysia—are home to one in four people on Earth. Crossing the Bay of Bengal places this region at the heart of world history for the first time. Integrating human and environmental history, and mining a wealth of sources, Sunil Amrith gives a revelatory and stirring new account of the Bay and those who have inhabited it. For centuries the Bay of Bengal served as a maritime highway between India and China, and then as a battleground for European empires, all while being shaped by the monsoons and by human migration. Imperial powers in the nineteenth century, abetted by the force of capital and the power of steam, reconfigured the Bay in their quest for coffee, rice, and rubber. Millions of Indian migrants crossed the sea, bound by debt or spurred by drought, and filled with ambition. Booming port cities like Singapore and Penang became the most culturally diverse societies of their time. By the 1930s, however, economic, political, and environmental pressures began to erode the Bay’s centuries-old patterns of interconnection. Today, rising waters leave the Bay of Bengal’s shores especially vulnerable to climate change, at the same time that its location makes it central to struggles over Asia’s future. Amrith’s evocative and compelling narrative of the region’s pasts offers insights critical to understanding and confronting the many challenges facing Asia in the decades ahead.
Labor, Land and Law
Author: William Addison PhillipsPublisher: New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1886 [c1885]
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Category : Agricultural laborers
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
The Transactions of the Bombay Geographical Society
Author: Bombay Geographical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
List of members in v. 1-2, 9-10, 15-18.
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