Catherine Ladds

Empire careers

Working for the Chinese Customs Service, 1854-1949

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service1854-1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. Looks at professional lives, social activities, private lives, and how these factors were influenced by the changing political context.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781784993702
• ISBN-10: 1784993700
• Artikelnr.: 44751220

Autorenporträt

Catherine Ladds is Assistant Professor of History at Hong Kong Baptist University

Inhaltsangabe

General Editor's introduction 1. Introduction: The Customs
China
and the empire world 2. The Customs mindset: Ethos
ideologies and knowledge about China 3. 'We want men and not encyclopaedias': Joining the Customs Service 4. 'That chaotic and Gilbertian Service': Working life in the Customs 5. Private lives
public reputations: The off-duty world of the Customs staff 6. Leaving the Service: Home
identity
and post-Customs lives 7. Conclusion Select bibliography Index