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New Frontiers: Imperialism's New Communities in East Asia, 1842-1953
01 Jan 2000-
TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative analysis of their communities in Harbin, 1898-1930 - Joshua A. Fogel, and Shanghai American community, 1937-49 - Mark F. Wilkinson.
Abstract: General Editor's introduction 1. Introduction - Robert Bickers and Christian Henriot 2. Colonialism 'in a Chinese atmosphere': the Caldwell affair and the perils of collaboration in early colonial Hong Kong - Christopher Munn 3. Marginal Westerners in Shanghai: The Baghdadi Jewish community, 1845-1931 - Chiara Betta 4. Indian communities in China, c. 1842-1949 - Claude Markovits 5. Foreigners or outsiders? Westerners and Chinese Christians in Chongqing, 1870s-1900 - Judith Wyman 6. The Japanese and the Jews: a comparative analysis of their communities in Harbin, 1898-1930 - Joshua A. Fogel 7. Japanese colonial citizenship in treaty port China: the location of Koreans and Taiwanese in the imperial order - Barbara J. Brooks 8. Denied and besieged: the Japanese community of Korea, 1876-1945 - Alain Delissen 9. 'Little Japan' in Shanghai: an insulated community, 1875-1945 - Christian Henriot 10. Who were the Shanghai Municipal Police and why where they there? The British recruits of 1919 - Robert Bickers 11. The Russian diaspora community in Shanghai - Marcia R. Ristaino 12. In search of identity: the German community in Shanghai, 1933-45 - Francoise Kreissler 13. The Shanghai American community, 1937-49 - Mark F. Wilkinson 14. Afterword: a colonial world - John Darwin Bibliography Index
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors look at the livelihoods and lives of African traders coming to Hong Kong and Guangzhou, and argue that one essential economic role China plays today is in manufacturing the cheap, sometimes counterfeit goods that enable Africa and other developing-world regions to experience globalization; African traders who come to China help make this possible.
Abstract: This article looks at the livelihoods and lives of African traders coming to Hong Kong and Guangzhou. These traders are practising “low-end globalization”, involving small amounts of capital, and semi-legal or illegal transactions under the radar of the law. The article first considers who these traders are, portraying them as, typically, members of the upper crust of their home societies. It then considers these traders in Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong, a building that is an entrepot between China and the developing world. Finally, it looks at traders’ livelihoods and lives in Guangzhou, South China, and traders’ efforts to succeed in mainland China. The article argues that one essential economic role China plays today is in manufacturing the cheap, sometimes counterfeit goods that enable Africa and other developing-world regions to experience globalization; the African traders who come to China help make this possible.
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01 Jan 2017
TL;DR: In this paper, a socio-musicological inquiry about the music in Shanghai during the 1930s and 1940s is carried out, focusing on the Shanghai Municipal Brass Band (Shanghailanders).
Abstract: Acknowledgements Note on Chinese Characters List of Figures Prologue 12 ‘1930s and 1940s Shanghai’: A Socio-Musicological Inquiry Chapter 1 50 International Settlement (Treaty Port I), ‘Trying to listen to the music’: Shanghailanders, Parks, The Shanghai Municipal Brass Band Chapter 2 89 French Concession (Treaty Port II), ‘Aucun instrument de cuivre’: Colonial Rule, Licensed Venues, Musical Soundscape Chapter 3 124 Japanese-Occupied Shanghai, ‘Die gute Unterhaltungsmusik’: Landscape, Refugee Cafés, Sounds of ‘Little Vienna’ Chapter 4 174 Nationalist Shanghai, ‘Nightclub Café’: Taxable Eateries and Claims of a Distinct Musical Sound Epilogue 210 Beyond ‘1930s and 1940s Shanghai’: Reproduction Maps, Repositories, Archival Musicology
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28 Sep 2017TL;DR: Shaping Modern Shanghai as mentioned in this paper provides a new understanding of colonialism in China through a fresh examination of Shanghai's International Settlement, which was the site of key developments of the Republican period: economic growth, rising Chinese nationalism and Sino-Japanese conflict.
Abstract: Shaping Modern Shanghai provides a new understanding of colonialism in China through a fresh examination of Shanghai's International Settlement. This was the site of key developments of the Republican period: economic growth, rising Chinese nationalism and Sino-Japanese conflict. Managed by the Shanghai Municipal Council (1854–1943), the International Settlement was beyond the control of the Chinese and foreign imperial governments. Jackson defines Shanghai's unique, hybrid form of colonial urban governance as transnational colonialism. The Council was both colonial in its structures and subject to colonial influence, especially from the British empire, yet autonomous in its activities and transnational in its personnel. This is the first in-depth study of how this unique body functioned on the local, national and international stages, revealing the Council's impact on the daily lives of the city's residents and its contribution to the conflicts of the period, with implications for the fields of modern Chinese and colonial history.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the period of rapid development and reengagement with the world that began in the early 1980s, arguing that a particularly productive way to think about today's Shanghai is as a "reglobalizing postsocialist" urban center.
Abstract: Shanghai is routinely described as "unique," yet also routinely likened to other places. It thus alternately invites and defies categorization. After introducing general methodological concerns and providing basic information about the main historical stages through which Shanghai has passed, this article focuses on the period of rapid development and re-engagement with the world that began in the early 1980s, arguing that a particularly productive way to think about today's Shanghai is as a "reglobalizing postsocialist" urban center—a category that also, for example, includes Budapest.
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01 Jan 2011
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