...Earl Swisher Anglo-American Steamship Rivalry in China, 1862–1874 . By Kwang-Ching Liu . Harvard East Asian Studies 8. Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 1962 . xvi , 218 . Index, Maps, Illus., Tables. $5.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1962 1962 98...

... institutional environments; their capacities for efficient operation and growth were therefore also different. Case studies of both types are conveniently found in a field of modern transport—the steamship business which arose to serve the trade in the treaty ports. After 1860 a large number of foreign firms...

...James D. Clarkson Home Port Singapore: A History of Straits Steamship Company Limited, 1890–1965 . By K. G. Tregonning . Singapore : Oxford University Press , 1967 . xii, 321 pp. Illustrations, Appendix, Index, n.p. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1970 1970 990...

...¢. Chung-kuo tsao-ch'i te lun-ch'uan ching-ying [The initial development of steamships in China] ., By Lü Shih-ch'iang . Nan-kang, Taiwan : The Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica , 1962 . Special Publication Series. 312. Chronological table, Bibliography. 80¢. Copyright © Association...

... merchants in Zhenjiang and other places secure access to the Shanghai credit market. Chapters 7 through 9 focus on local engagement with steamship technology through the early twentieth century. Chapters 7 and 8 review the diplomatic developments that opened the Yangtze River to foreign commerce...

...Kwang-Ching Liu Lin Tse-hsü: Pioneer Promoter of the Adoption of Western Means of Maritime Defense in China ., 65 pp.; Tseng Kuo-fan: Pioneer Promoter of the Steamship in China, 98 pp.; Tso Tsung-t‘ang: Pioneer Promoter of the Modern Dockyard and the Woollen Mill in China , 93 pp. By Gideon...

... (steamships, plantations, mines) in informative ways. The volume's final section offers fruitful guidance for future research on the social history of labor migration, the next step of this institutional collaboration. Olivia Pelletier surveys materials held at the French Archives nationales d'outre-mer...

... for a steamship company in 1897, Hsiang hsüeh pao (Hunan Reform News), no. 6 (June 10, 1897 ) . About the same time, Griffith John detected “a real thirst among some of the Changsha students for Western knowledge,” and believed that provincial leaders “are inclined to favour the introduction of Western...

... steam engine during the eighteen fifties and operated steamships between Chinese sea and river ports from the eighteen sixties. The Chinese government itself sponsored the use of steam-powered machinery when modern arsenals and shipyards were built at Nanking, Shanghai, Foochow and Tientsin during...

... evidence from British, Kong Hong, and American archives as well as primary sources of individuals and companies, such as the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. She has also used many newspapers in both Chinese and English. Scholars of Chinese America and transpacific interactions will benefit from...

... Lin Tse-hsii: Pioneer Promoter of the Adoption of Western Means of Maritime Defense in China, 65 pp.; Tseng Kuo-fan: Pioneer Promoter of the Steamship in China, 98 pp.; Tso Tsung-t'ang: Pioneer Promoter of the Modern Dockyard and The Mandarins: The Circulation of the Elites in China, 1600-1900...

... with the advent of new communications, transportation, and financial institutions, allowed Qiaopiju owners to change their business model. Rather than profit on remittance fees, Qiaopiju owners took advantage of the accelerated time and economic incentives offered by telegraphs and steamships to use...

... of the steamship in China ( Peiping : Yen-ching University , 1935 ), passim . 2 Tseng Wen-cheng-kung chüan-chi: tsou kao [images/] [The collected public papers of Tseng Kuo-fan: memorials section] ([images/] 1888 ), eh. 30, pp. 3a – 4 a. 4 Yung Wing or Jung Hung [images/] (1828–1912...

.... tables (part fold.) 6875. Teachers' Training College. Research Unit. Why teach? A study of motives for choosing teaching as a career. [Singapore, 1968] 137 p. figs., tables (part fold.) 6876. Tregonning, K. G. Home port Singapore: a history of Straits Steamship Company Limited, 178 BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ASIAN...

... in Asia from the earliest times to the modern period. Papers concern themselves with Afghan migrations, the spread of Buddhism, the rise of Islam in south and southeast Asia, the Chinese in the Philippines, and the early history of the steamship in China. The second part of the book concerns itself...

..., it is the changing technologies of the nineteenth century—the rise of the steamship and later the telegraph—that moved decision making away from the office of the resident in Palembang and toward a three-way conversation among Palembang, Batavia, and The Hague. It is this conversation that is central in Sumatran...

... focuses on the efforts of Yuan and other Qing officials to promote a variety of state-supported Chinese economic ventures, including a telegraph line, commercial steamship service between China and the Korea, and loans to the Choson government. In perhaps the most impressive chapters of the book, Larsen...

...). Pointing to past evils and failures he urges a new approach to shipping problems. He questions the subsidizing of "unnecessary inefficiencies in foreign services to protect local interests" (p. 186). It may be asked also whether improved aviation will rob steamship lines of much of their passenger traffic...

... Japanese steamship line carrying Japanese products. The question of Philippine independence is a very critical one as far as the future interests of Americans and Filipinos are concerned. If the Philippines are left to shift absolutely for themselves, upon the attainment of political and economic...

... developing capacities of foreign steamships, naval ordnance, and print information networks by the early 1800s, but such points are tangential to the central thesis of this exceptional monograph. Van Dyke has decidedly reinvigorated the analysis of Sino-Western maritime commerce over the early to mid-Qing...