Conflict and Cooperation in Sino-British Business, 1860-1911

This is a study about the collapse of Chinese traditional commercial order in the late Qing period. It regards the process as an influence from the prevalence of pro-British Chinese commercial networks in the 1880s. Through the analysis of various Sino-British commercial conflicts after the Arrow war, this book reveals when and where such a commercial network was born and what impact it brought about on the Chinese society.

Auteur

EIICHI MOTONO is Assistant Professor at the School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University, Japan. He formerly taught modern East Asian history and comparative history between late Imperial China, early modern North-Western Europe and Tokugawa Japan at Tokyo University of Fisheries. He studied modern Chinese history at the University of Tokyo and Chinese languages at the University of Hong Kong. After obtaining his MA degree in oriental history at the University of Tokyo, he continued his research work as a Swire Centenary Scholarship student at the University of Oxford. His research topic is modern Chinese socio-economic history, especially that of Shanghai.

Contenu

Acknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures Abbreviations INTRODUCTION An Economic Principle for Disciplining Chinese Merchants The Co-existence of Different Economic Principles PART I: SINO-BRITISH DISCONTENT COMMERCIAL RELATIONSHIP The Frozen Debt Question The Outward Transit Pass Question PART II: SINO-BRITISH COMMERCIAL CONFLICTS IN SHANGHAI Conflict Over Foreign Silk Filatures Conflict Over the Opium Trade PART III: THE COLLAPSE OF CHINESE MERCHANT-CONTROL SYSTEM The Changed Situation The Collapse of the Merchant-control System Conclusion Appendix Bibliography Glossary Index