Author: Hong Kong. Marine DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
The Port of Hong Kong
Author: Hong Kong. Marine DepartmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 118
Book Description
Great Ports of the World
Author: Mia CassanyPublisher: Prestel Junior
ISBN: 9783791373553
Category : Harbors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From the ports of New York and St. Petersburg to London and Barcelona, this fun and informative book offers a unique way of looking at and learning about the busiest ports of the world. Travel to the world's ports and you'll learn much about a country's people, culture, and industry. Ports are thriving hubs of activity, filled with an endless variety of boats, cargo, and workers. In colorful spreads, readers are given insights into each port city, from flora to fauna and from tropical climates to polar regions.
The Treaty Ports of China and Japan
Author: Nicholas Belfield DennysPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108045901
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 867
Book Description
This comprehensive guide to key cities of China and Japan was published in Hong Kong and London in 1867.
Whampoa and the Canton Trade
Author: Paul A. Van DykePublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888528351
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Paul A. Van Dyke’s new book, Whampoa and the Canton Trade: Life and Death in a Chinese Port, 1700–1842, authoritatively corrects misconceptions about how the Qing government treated foreigners when it controlled all trade in the Guangzhou port. Van Dyke reappraises the role of Whampoa in the system—a port twenty kilometres away from Guangzhou—and reassesses the government’s attitude towards foreigners, which was much more accommodating than previous research suggested. In fact, Van Dyke shows that foreigners were not bound by local laws and were given freedom of movement around Whampoa and Canton to the extent that they were treated with leniency even when found in off-limit places. Whampoa and the Canton Trade recounts the lives of seamen who travelled half-way around the globe at great risk and lived through a historic period that would become the framework for subsequent encounters between China and the rest of the world. Were it not for the exchanges between the major powers and the Qing empire, the world—as we know it—would be a rather different place. Hence, Van Dyke’s command of data mining shows that Whampoa was a key pillar in the Canton System and, thus, in the making of the modern world economy. ‘Paul Van Dyke has transformed our understanding of the Canton trade. In this book, he brings his enormous knowledge of the primary sources to this study of Whampoa, the anchorage on the Pearl River used by all foreign ships when that trade was confined to the port of Canton, presenting “a view of the trade from the common seaman’s perspective.”’ —Evelyn S. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh ‘Paul A. Van Dyke wonderfully brings to life the drudgery and danger faced by the diverse men who worked the ships of the Canton trade. He skilfully fashions vivid images of the texture of their lives from danger to boredom, from illnesses and accidents to drinking and whoring.’ —R. Bin Wong, UCLA
Twentieth Century Impressions of Hong-kong, Shanghai, and Other Treaty Ports of China
Author: Arnold WrightPublisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781015654365
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Social Connections in China
Author: Thomas GoldPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521530316
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
This volume assesses the evolving role of guanxi (social networks) in China's transforming society.
The Blockade of the Port and Harbour of Hongkong, by the Hopps, Or Farmer in Canton of Customs Duties Levied Upon Chinese Vessels. Proceedings at a Public Meeting Held at the City Hall, Hongkong, on the 14th September, 1874
Author: China’s Foreign Places
Author: Robert NieldPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888139282
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the imperial powers—principally Britain, the United States, Russia, France, Germany and Japan—signed treaties with China to secure trading, residence and other rights in cities on the coast, along important rivers, and in remote places further inland. The largest of them—the great treaty ports of Shanghai and Tientsin—became modern cities of international importance, centres of cultural exchange and safe havens for Chinese who sought to subvert the Qing government. They are also lasting symbols of the uninvited and often violent incursions by foreign powers during China’s century of weakness. The extraterritorial privileges that underpinned the treaty ports were abolished in 1943—a time when much of the treaty port world was under Japanese occupation. China’s Foreign Places provides a historical account of the hundred or more major foreign settlements that appeared in China during the period 1840 to 1943. Most of the entries are about treaty ports, large and small, but the book also includes colonies, leased territories, resorts and illicit centres of trade. Information has been drawn from a wide range of sources and entries are arranged alphabetically with extensive illustrations and maps. China’s Foreign Places is both a unique work of reference, essential for scholars of this period and travellers to modern China. It is also a fascinating account of the people, institutions and businesses that inhabited China’s treaty port world.
Port Competitiveness
Author: Marc HuybrechtsPublisher:
ISBN: 9789045502236
Category : Competition
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
The Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period
Author: Sze Hang ChoiPublisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004341161
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Focusing on the hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong, Pearl River Delta and West River in the last two decades of the late Qing period, this work tells a vivid trading and competition story of previously unknown private Chinese traders and junk masters. This challenges the prevailing view of the domination of China’s maritime trade by modern foreign steamships. Making use of unpublished Kowloon Maritime Customs and British diplomatic records in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry Sze Hang Choi convincingly shows how these private Chinese traders flexibly adopted to the foreign-dominated maritime customs agencies and treaty port system in defending their Chinese homeland stronghold against the invasion of foreign economic power.