Author: JAMES HARRISON WILSON
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Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Author: James Harrison Wilson
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Author: James Harrison Wilson
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 376

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Author: James Harrison Wilson
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ISBN: 9783337135812
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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China - Travels and investigations in the middle kingdom. Vol. 1 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1894. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Author: Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 392

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Author: Calcutta (India). Imperial library
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 568

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Category : Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 670

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Author: Jos Gamble
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135790310
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 287

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In the decades following the introduction of Communist Party rule in Shanghai in 1949, the city's economy, infrastructure and links with the world all atrophied. However, the past decade has seen far-reaching economic reforms implemented to recreate Shanghai as a cosmopolitan, world financial and trade centre. This book focuses on the lives of local residents and their perceptions of their changing city, and presents an evocative series of ethnographic perspectives of the city's shifting sociological landscape in this period of transition.

Author: Nicholas J. Clifford
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472111978
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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An examination of the writings of travelers to China in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Author: Thomas Larkin
Publisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231558538
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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What roles did Americans play in the expanding global empires of the nineteenth century? Thomas M. Larkin examines the Hong Kong–based Augustine Heard & Company, the most prominent American trading firm in treaty-port China, to explore the ways American elites at once made and were made by British colonial society. Following the Heard brothers throughout their firm’s rise and decline, The China Firm reveals how nineteenth-century China’s American elite adapted to colonial culture, helped entrench social and racial hierarchies, and exploited the British imperial project for their own profit as they became increasingly invested in its political affairs and commercial networks. Through the central narrative of Augustine Heard & Co., Larkin disentangles the ties that bound the United States to China and the British Empire in the nineteenth century. Drawing on a vast range of archival material from Hong Kong, China, Boston, and London, he weaves the local and the global together to trace how Americans gained acceptance into and contributed to the making of colonial societies and world-spanning empires. Uncovering the transimperial lives of these American traders and the complex ways extraimperial communities interacted with British colonialism, The China Firm makes a vital contribution to global histories of nineteenth-century Asia and provides an alternative narrative of British empire.