...Ellsworth C. Carlson Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1968 1968 Chung-ying Kʻai-pʻing, Kʻuang-chʻuan Chiao-she (Sino-British negotiations on the Kaiping mining rights) . By Wang Hsi . Monograph No. 6 of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , Taipei , 1963...

...Albert Feuerwerker Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1959 1959 The Kaiping Mines (1877–1912) . By Ellsworth C. Carlson . Harvard University, Chinese Economic and Political Studies, Special Series. Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1957 . vii, 174. $3.00. 286...

... on the Kaiping mining rights). BY WANG HSI. Monograph No. 6 of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taipei, I963- 243 PP- n-PThe Kaiping Mines in the T'ang-shan area of Chihli province, were a relatively early Chinese effort, beginning in 1877, to employ western technology and business methods...

.... The Kaiping Mines, like a good many others of China's first modern industries, were inaugurated under the aegis of the Chihli governor-general, Li Hung-chang. The enterprise formed a part of Li's satrapy, and probably owed its origin to a desire to furnish bunker coal and return cargo from Tientsin...

... OF ASIAN STUDIES ume K'uang-wu Tang (Mining affairs archives), published by the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. He has not, however, used the British consular and diplomatic correspondence on the Kaiping question, much of which is now open to scholars in the Public Record Office...

... histories cited (the Kaiping Coal Mines, Imperial Railway Administration, and Shanghai Cotton Cloth Mill) really buttress the author's thesis. Neither the performance of the China Merchants Steam Navigation Company nor that of the Imperial Telegraph Administration constitutes decisive evidence; Thomas...

... in question. On each of these counts Thomas has left this reader feeling less than satisfied. Only three of the six case histories cited (the Kaiping Coal Mines, Imperial Railway Administration, and Shanghai Cotton Cloth Mill) really buttress the author's thesis. Neither the performance of the China Merchants...

... as the American . 513 China Development Corporation, the Kaiping Mines, and the Four and Six Power Consortiums will have to consult this work. The fusion of the Belgian dimension with the larger international dimension allows the author to advance the challenging thesis that, contrary to many contemporary...

... from 1914 to 1949 of a successful enterprise located in T'ang-shan, Hopei which originated in a cement subsidiary of the Kaiping Mining Company. Chee Hsin was the first in its field, enjoying a monopoly for North China and never lacking funds from native sources or capable, stable managers...

.... PRINGSHEIM Columbia University The Kaiping Mines (1877-1912). By ELLSWORTH C. CARLSON. Harvard University, Chinese Economic and Political Studies, Special Series. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1957. vii, 174. $3.00. Professor Carlson's monograph is a welcome addition to the all too sparse literature...

...: An Anatomy of Regulatory Failure in China (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 118–35, 150–63; Jikun Huang and Guolei Yang, “Understanding Recent Challenges and New Food Policy in China,” Global Food Security 12 (2017): 122–24. 3. Jennifer Pan and Kaiping Chen, “Concealing Corruption: How...

... originated in a cement subsidiary of the Kaiping Mining Company. Chee Hsin was the first in its field, enjoying a monopoly for North China and never lacking funds from native sources or capable, stable managers. The obsolescence of its equipment after 1920 was offset by abundant, cheap labor and a favorable...

... throws new light on the goals and machinations of non-Belgian financiers concerned with China. Henceforth historians interested in such undertakings as the American . 513 China Development Corporation, the Kaiping Mines, and the Four and Six Power Consortiums will have to consult this work. The fusion...

... reduce its unit costs. The following steps were later taken in an effort to increase the firm's profits. In 1898 Sheng Hsuan-huai began to exploit coal reserves in P'ing-hsiang county of Kiangsi province to cut the high costs of transporting coke and coal from the Kaiping mines in Hopei. In 1904 Sheng...

... F. Cahill] Birch, Cyril, Stories from a Ming Collection [James I. Crump] Bohm, Ernest, and Theodore Mittler, Magnum Lexicon Sinico-Latinum [George A. Kennedy] Brandt, Conrad, Stalin's Failure in China, 1924-1927 [Allen S. Whiting] Carlson, Ellsworth C, The Kaiping Mines (1877-1912) [Albert...

... , (The Recent Fifty Years), Sheng Poa, Shanghai , p. 6 . 107 Bland J. O. P. , Recent Events and Present Politics in China ( London , 1912 ); pp. 272 – 273 , Lee, op. cit. , p. 271. 108 Carlson Ellsworth C. , The Kaiping Mines (1877–1912 ), ( Harvard University Press...

... ( Cambridge, Mass. , 1958 ) ; and Carlson Ellsworth C. , The Kaiping Mines (1877–1912) ( Cambridge, Mass. , 1957 ) are excellent examples. 4 Ashton T. S. , Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution ( Manchester , Manchester University Press , 1951 ), p. 1 . 5...

... in the Huashang Gongyi Company, located in Rangoon, Burma, sought the whereabouts of a partner from Kaiping County who had absconded to the United States with company funds. The Bank of Canton in Hong Kong appealed to Taishanese abroad by stressing management by Chinese merchants who would nonetheless operate...

... in Chinese Studies, no. 48. Ann Arbor : Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan . Woon Yuen-Fong 1989 . “ Social Change and Continuity in South China: Overseas Chinese and the Guan Lineage in Kaiping County, 1949–87 .” China Quarterly no 118: 324 –44. Presidential Address: Virtual...

..., it seems clear, however, that in cases where the legal obligations were not met by these firms, the Chinese government showed no lack of effort in harrying these firms until a settlement was reached. The experiences of the Peking Syndicate and die Kaiping Mines are cases in point.16 Doubtless the matter...