The remarkable hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period
Choi, H.S.H. (2017). The remarkable hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period. Brill's Studies in Maritime History, 3. Brill: Leiden. ISBN 978-90-04-34117-3. 292 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004341166
Part of: Brill's Studies in Maritime History. Brill: Leiden. ISSN 2405-4917, more
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VLIZ: Maritime history [107049]
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- Choi, H.S.H. (2017). Introduction, in: Choi, H.S.H. The remarkable hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period. Brill's Studies in Maritime History, 3: pp. 1-15, more
- Choi, H.S.H. (2017). Chinese junks and foreign steamships in Canton River Delta, in: Choi, H.S.H. The remarkable hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period. Brill's Studies in Maritime History, 3: pp. 16-56, more
- Choi, H.S.H. (2017). The West River, in: Choi, H.S.H. The remarkable hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period. Brill's Studies in Maritime History, 3: pp. 57-136, more
- Choi, H.S.H. (2017). Hybrid Chinese shipping: foreign-flagged Chinese junks and Chinese steam tugs, in: Choi, H.S.H. The remarkable hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period. Brill's Studies in Maritime History, 3: pp. 137-202, more
- Choi, H.S.H. (2017). Piracy and shipping strategies on the West River, in: Choi, H.S.H. The remarkable hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period. Brill's Studies in Maritime History, 3: pp. 203-232, more
- Choi, H.S.H. (2017). Epilogue: the years after 1910, in: Choi, H.S.H. The remarkable hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period. Brill's Studies in Maritime History, 3: pp. 233-247, more
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Focusing on the hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong, Pearl River Delta and West River in the last two decades of the late Qing period, this work tells a vivid trading and competition story of previously unknown private Chinese traders and junk masters. This challenges the prevailing view of the domination of China’s maritime trade by modern foreign steamships. Making use of unpublished Kowloon Maritime Customs and British diplomatic records in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry Sze Hang Choi convincingly shows how these private Chinese traders flexibly adopted to the foreign-dominated maritime customs agencies and treaty port system in defending their Chinese homeland stronghold against the invasion of foreign economic power. |
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