The remarkable hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong and the West River region in the late Qing period /
Choi, Henry Sze Hang.
The remarkable hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong and the West River region in the late Qing period / by Henry Sze Hang Choi. - 1 online resource (xix, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Brill's studies in maritime history, v. 3 2405-4917 ; . - Brill's Studies in Maritime History 3. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2017-II, ISBN: 9789004328013. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-275) and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / Chinese Junks and Foreign Steamships in Canton River Delta / The West River / Hybrid Chinese Shipping: Foreign-Flagged Chinese Junks and Chinese Steam Tugs / Piracy and Shipping Strategies on the West River / Epilogue: The Years after 1910 / A Revised Inland Steam Navigation Regulations, 1898 / B The Excerpt of the Mackay Treaty, 1902 / C Schedule A of Chinese Passengers Act of 1855 / D Prospectus and Regulations of the Swatow Ch’ao-yang and Kit-yang Steam Launch Company / Bibliography / Index / Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi.
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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 Making use of unpublished Kowloon Maritime Customs and British diplomatic records in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry Sze Hang Choi convincingly shows how these private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.
9789004341166
10.1163/9789004341166 DOI
2017017703
Merchants--History.--China, Southeast
Junks--History.--China, Southeast
Steamboats--History.--China, Southeast
Shipping--History.--China, Southeast
Hong Kong (China)--Commerce--History--19th century.
Hong Kong (China)--Commerce--History--20th century.
Xi River Region (China)--Commerce--History--19th century.
Xi River Region (China)--Commerce--History--20th century.
China--Foreign economic relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Foreign economic relations--China.
HF3852 / .C46 2017
382.095125
The remarkable hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong and the West River region in the late Qing period / by Henry Sze Hang Choi. - 1 online resource (xix, 292 pages) : illustrations, maps. - Brill's studies in maritime history, v. 3 2405-4917 ; . - Brill's Studies in Maritime History 3. European History and Culture E-Books Online, Collection 2017-II, ISBN: 9789004328013. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 264-275) and index.
Preliminary Material / Introduction / Chinese Junks and Foreign Steamships in Canton River Delta / The West River / Hybrid Chinese Shipping: Foreign-Flagged Chinese Junks and Chinese Steam Tugs / Piracy and Shipping Strategies on the West River / Epilogue: The Years after 1910 / A Revised Inland Steam Navigation Regulations, 1898 / B The Excerpt of the Mackay Treaty, 1902 / C Schedule A of Chinese Passengers Act of 1855 / D Prospectus and Regulations of the Swatow Ch’ao-yang and Kit-yang Steam Launch Company / Bibliography / Index / Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi -- Henry Sze Hang Choi.
Available to subscribing member institutions only.
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.
9789004341166
10.1163/9789004341166 DOI
2017017703
Merchants--History.--China, Southeast
Junks--History.--China, Southeast
Steamboats--History.--China, Southeast
Shipping--History.--China, Southeast
Hong Kong (China)--Commerce--History--19th century.
Hong Kong (China)--Commerce--History--20th century.
Xi River Region (China)--Commerce--History--19th century.
Xi River Region (China)--Commerce--History--20th century.
China--Foreign economic relations--Great Britain.
Great Britain--Foreign economic relations--China.
HF3852 / .C46 2017
382.095125