Empire Careers - Working for the Chinese Customs Service, 18541949

This book examines the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service1854-1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. Looks at professional lives, social activities, private lives, and how these factors were influenced by the changing political context.

List of contents

General Editor's introduction
1. Introduction: The Customs, China, and the empire world
2. The Customs mindset: Ethos, ideologies and knowledge about China
3. 'We want men and not encyclopaedias': Joining the Customs Service
4. 'That chaotic and Gilbertian Service': Working life in the Customs
5. Private lives, public reputations: The off-duty world of the Customs staff
6. Leaving the Service: Home, identity, and post-Customs lives
7. Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index

About the author

Catherine Ladds is Assistant Professor of History at Hong Kong Baptist University

Summary

This book examines the 11,000 foreign nationals who worked for the Chinese Customs Service1854-1949, exploring how their lives and careers were shaped by imperial ideologies, networks and structures. Looks at professional lives, social activities, private lives, and how these factors were influenced by the changing political context. -- .

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Ladds, Ladds Catherine
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.04.2016
• EAN: 9781784993702
• ISBN: 978-1-78499-370-2
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Studies in Imperialism; Studies in Imperialism
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, Colonialism & imperialism, Colonialism and imperialism