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Breaking with the Past: The Maritime Customs Service and the Global Origins of Modernity in China
Hans Van de Ven
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| #823683 in eBooks | 2014-02-25 | 2014-02-25 | File type: PDF|||Far more than an institutional history of the Customs Service, this book is effectively a complete new history of China's rocky entrance into the global political economy. There is no better book written at this level of historical research and archival detail
From 1854 to 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue available to China's central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China's harbors and surveyed the Chinese coast. It oversaw a college training Chinese diplomats; translated legal, philosophical, economic, and scientific documents; organized contributions to international exhibitions; and pioneered China's modern postal system. Af...
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