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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Cai, Si hang
Titre(s) : The remarkable hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong and the West River region in the late Qing period [Texte imprimé] / by Henry Sze Hang Choi
Publication : Leiden : Brill, 2017
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIX-292 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Collection : Brill's Studies in Maritime History, ISSN 2405-4917 ; volume 3
Lien à la collection : Brill's studies in maritime history
Comprend : Notes on English spelling of Chinese place names ; Conversion table of currency
; Maps ; Introduction ; Chinese junks and foreign steamships in Canton River Delta
; The West River ; Hybrid Chinese shipping : foreign-flagged Chinese junks and Chinese
steam tugs ; Case study: Tai Li Steam Launch ; Piracy and shipping strategies on
the West River ; Epilogue: Years after 1910 ; Appendices: 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher;
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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 Making use of unpublished Kowloon Maritime Customs and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"--Provided
by publisher
Sujet(s) : Commerçants -- Chine (sud-est) -- 1800-....
Navigation -- Chine (sud-est) -- 1800-....
Commerce -- Chine -- Hong Kong (Chine) -- 1800-....
Commerce -- Chine -- Xi Jiang, Bassin du (Chine) -- 1800-....
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789004341166. - ISBN 9004341161. - ISBN 9789004341173 (erroné) (hardback) (acid-free
paper). - ISBN 900434117X (erroné) (hardback) (acid-free paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb453205145
Notice n° :
FRBNF45320514
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