Empire careers Working for the Chinese Customs Service 1854 1949 1st Edition by Catherine Ladds ISBN 0719085489 9780719085482

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ISBN 10: 0719085489

ISBN 13: 978-0719085482

Author:  Catherine Ladds 

Empire careers: Working for the Chinese Customs Service, 1854–1949 1st Edition: This is the first book-length study of the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service between 1854 and1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. In doing so it highlights the vast range of people – British and non-British, elite and non-elite – for whom the empire world spoke of opportunity. Empire careers considers the professional triumphs and tribulations of the foreign staff, their social activities, their private and family lives, and how all of these factors were influenced by the changing political context in China and abroad. Contrary to the common assumption that China was merely an ‘outpost’ of empire, exploration of the Customs’ cosmopolitan personnel encourages us to see China as a place where multiple imperial trajectories converged, overlapped and competed.

This book will be of interest to students and scholars of imperial history and the political history of modern China.

 

Empire careers: Working for the Chinese Customs Service, 1854–1949 1st Edition Table of contents:

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

 

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