British Mandarins and Chinese Reformers: The British Administration of Weihaiwei (1898-1930) and the

by Pamela Atwell

Drawing on previously untapped British and Chinese documents, this is a comparative study of British and Chinese administrative methods in the small rural district of Weihaiwei in the northeast Shantung Province. The British leased the territory from the Chinese in 1898 with the intention of maintaining traditional forms of government whenever possible. But in 1930, the Chinese officials of Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist government stepped in to administer...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195837983
• ISBN13: 9780195837988
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 8.8"