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Title Twentieth century colonialism and China : localities, the everyday and the world / edited by Bryna Goodman and David S.G. Goodman
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (273 pages)
Contents Cover; Twentieth-Century Colonialism and China; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; List of maps; List of figures; Abbreviations; Preface; Introduction : colonialism and China; Part I: Colonial governance and questions of identity; 1. Good work for China in every possible direction': The Foreign Inspectorate of the Chinese Maritime Customs, 1854-1950; 2. Negotiating the nation: German colonialism and Chinese nationalism in Qingdao, 1897-1914; 3. Things unheard of East or West: colonialism, nationalism, and cultural contamination in early Chinese exchanges
Part III: Late colonialism and local consequences9. Modernism and its discontent in Shanghai: The dubious agency of the semi-colonized in 1929; 10. Equality and the 'Unequal Treaties': Chinese émigrés and British colonial routes to modernity; 11. Hong Kong and the New Imperialism in East Asia, 1941-66; 12. The hapless imperialist? Portuguese rule in 1960s Macau; Bibliography; Index
Summary Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China's landscape defies systematic characterization. This book investigates the complexities and subtleties of colonialism in China during the first half of the twentieth century. In particular, the contributors examine the interaction between localities and forces of globalization that shaped the particular colonial experiences characterizing much of China's ex
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-245) and index
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Subject Europeans -- China -- History -- 20th century
Imperialism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
Colonization
Europeans
Imperialism
International relations
SUBJECT China -- History -- 20th century -- Colonization
China -- Relations -- Western countries
Western countries -- Relations -- China
China -- History, Local -- 20th century
Subject China
Western countries
Genre/Form History
Local history
Form Electronic book
Author Goodman, Bryna, 1955-
Goodman, David S. G
ISBN 9781136450402
1136450408
9780203125458
0203125452