Twentieth-century colonialism and China : localities, the everyday and the world / / edited by Bryna Goodman and David S.G. Goodman

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461816703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2012
• ISBN: 1-283-52083-4; 9786613833280; 0-203-12545-2; 1-136-45040-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (273 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GoodmanBryna <1955->; GoodmanDavid S. G
• Disciplina: 325.5109/041
• Soggetti: Europeans - China - History - 20th century; Imperialism; Electronic books.; China History 20th century Colonization; China Relations Western countries; Western countries Relations China; China History, Local 20th century
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliography (p. [224]-245) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 m