1st Edition
Germany's Colony in China Colonialism, Protection and Economic Development in Qingdao and Shandong, 1898-1914
By Fion Wai Ling So
Copyright 2019
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
176 Pages
28 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book explores the economic development of the northern Chinese city of Qingdao, which was held by Germany as a colony from 1898 to 1914. It focuses especially on the economic polices of the German colonial government and of the provincial government of the neighbouring Chinese province of Shandong, considering amongst other issues free trade and protection, the impact of the Gold Standard... Read more
1. Preface – A World of Change
2. In China – Qingdao and Shandong in the long Nineteenth Century
3. The Gold Standard, and German Economic Integration during the Great Depression, 1874-90
4. Regulating ‘free trade’ in German Qingdao
5. Drawing the boundary between the private and the public sector in China after 1901
6. Sino-German trade agreements, and local tensions in Shandong
7. Conclusion
8. Epilogue – Between 1908 and 1914 – A new cycle
Biography
Wai Ling So completed her doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
