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Twentieth Century Colonialism and China : Localities, the everyday, and the world

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Goodman and Goodman as discussed by the authors discuss colonial spaces and everyday social interactions in the context of Chinese emigration and identity in the early 20th century in Hong Kong, China, and Taiwan.
Abstract
Introduction: Colonialism and China, Bryna Goodman and David S. G. Goodman Part I: Colonial governance and questions of identity 1. 'Good work for China in every possible direction': the Foreign Inspectorate of the Chinese Maritime Customs, 1854-1950, Robert Bickers 2. Negotiating the Nation: German Colonialism and Chinese Nationalism in Qingdao, 1897-1914, Klaus Muhlhahn 3. Things Unheard of East or West: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Cultural Contamination in Early Chinese Exchanges, Bryna Goodman Part II: Colonial spaces and everyday social interactions 4. The Peak: Residential Segregation in Colonial Hong Kong, John M. Carroll 5. An Italian 'Neighbourhood' in Tianjin: Little Italy or Colonial Space? Maurizio Marinelli 6. The Colonial Space of Death: Shanghai cemetries, 1844-1946, Christian Henriot 7. French Medicine in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century China: Rejection or Compliance in Far South Treaty Ports, Concessions and Leased Territories, Florence Bretelle-Establet 8. Writing Home and China: Elisabeth Frey in Tianjin, 1913-1914, Yixu Lu and David S. G. Goodman Part III: Late colonialism and local consequences 9. Modernism and its Discontent in Shanghai: the Dubious Agency of the Semi-colonized in 1929, Yiyan Wang 10. Equality and the 'Unequal Treaties': Chinese emigres and British colonial routes to modernity, John Fitzgerald 11. Hong Kong and the New Imperialism in East Asia, 1941-1966, Prasenjit Duara 12. The Hapless Imperialist? Portuguese Rule in 1960s Macau, Cathryn Clayton

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