STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Philip Thai (Columbia University Press, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. Smuggling along the Chinese coast has been a thorn in the side of many regimes. From opium and weapons concealed aboard foreign steamships in the Qing dynasty to nylon stockings and wristwatches trafficked in the People’s Republic, … [Read more...]
Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860–1937
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Anne Reinhardt (Harvard University Asia Center, 2018) For information from the publisher, please click here. China’s status in the world of expanding European empires of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been under dispute. Its unequal relations with multiple powers, secured through a system of treaties rather than … [Read more...]
