Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860-1937

by Anne Reinhardt

China's status in the world of expanding European empires of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries has long been under dispute. Its unequal relations with multiple powers, secured through a system of treaties rather than through colonization, has invited debate over the degree and significance of outside control and local sovereignty. Navigating Semi-Colonialism examines steam navigation--introduced by foreign powers to Chinese waters in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067498384X
• ISBN13: 9780674983847
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"