Shanghai : political & economic reports : 1842-1943 : British government records from the international city  Shanghai: Political & Economic Reports: 1842-1943: British Government Records from the International City 

• Product Details

  Product #

  2441407Y

  Author(s)

  Jarman, Robert L.

  City

  Cambridge 

  Country

  United Kingdom 

  Language

  English 

  ISBN

  9781788065030 

  Date of Publication

  - 

  Publisher

  Cambridge Archive Editions  

  Cover Type

  Hard cover 

  Pages

  - 

  Subject

  History, 19th Century and Earlier

  Subject

  History, 20th-21st Centuries

   

• Product Details in Original Language

  Author

  Jarman, Robert L.

  Publisher

  Cambridge Archive Editions  

• Description

  Shanghai: Political & Economic Reports: 1842-1943: British Government Records from the International City 18-volume set, approximately 14,500 pages. ISBNs of this set are 9781788065030 and 1840972106, subsequent editions use 9781840972108 (print) and 9781139963602 (e-book). The remarkable and durable institution of the International Settlement allowed the British to report in detail on political and economic matters in Shanghai and China. This collection of primary documents establishes a comprehensive series of dispatches, in the main from the British consul in Shanghai to the British ambassador to China usually based in Peking, but in the 1930s based in Shanghai itself. There is regular information on the government of the Settlement, and reports on the opium trade; there are extended reports, in 1856, on the continuing Taiping Rebellion, and later, reports on the Sino-Japanese war over the control of Korea; from 1901–1 reports include: the Boxer Rebellion; commentary on the French settlement; anti-government conspirators in Shanghai; the Russo-Japanese war; the Shanghai tramway system; the bubonic plague in Shanghai; the Chinese revolution of 1911–12; British intelligence reports on German activities, 1914–18; and in the mid-1920s telegrams reflect the impact of the civil war in China, and report “the Shanghai incident”. The collection ends with the winding up of the Settlement under wartime Japanese occupation.