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Informal Empire
popularised by Robinson and Gallagher, 1953, 'The Imperialism of Free Trade'
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Ann Stoler
'On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty', argues that informal empire is an 'unhelpful euphemism' and that there is a spectrum of emprie
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Osterhammel
'unlike the average colonised people' Chinese elites retained their traditions and culture
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Isabella Jackson
Empire did not feel informal to the millions of Chinese who lived under imperial rule
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Sun Yat Sen
the Chinese 'were crushed by the economic force of the powers to a greater degree than if we were a full colony'
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Angus Madison
China's GDP fell by over half in the decade after the second opium war
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First Unequal Treaty
Treaty of Nanjing 1842
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By 1860 there were
15 treaty ports including Shanghai
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Jeremy Taylor
Treaty ports were 'a social system of exploitation and exclusion'
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Shen Xiafei
CMCS was the 'executive organ' of aggressive imperialist policies
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Robert Bickers
CMCS was a proponent of informal empire
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Hans Van der Ven
'a civil bureaucracy with a cosmopolitan nature'
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Richard Horowitz
'a creature of foreigners and foreign politics'
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Century of National Humiliation
1839-1949
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William Callahan
victim nationalism, national insecurity, history and recovery
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Chinese constitution
victory of Chinese people of all races
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Huangpu Park
'Dogs and Chinese not admitted'
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Leo ou fan Lee
Shanghai Modern, Shanghai was a 'bustling cosmopolitan metropolis' by the 1930s
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By 1865
21.5% of Shanghai's population lived in the foreign concession
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Wen Hsin Yeh
'Chinese Modernity: Commerce and Culture in a Republican city', birthplace of a new urban culture
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Christian Henriot
'The Shanghai Bund in Myth and History', main stage for business and trade
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Dingjun Mountain
1905, first film
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Miriam Hanson
'Fallen Women, Rising Stars, New Horizons', 1930s Shanghai film was an instance of 'vernacular modernism'
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Antonia Finnane
'What should Chinese Women Wear?', domain of dress provides a rich repository of Chinese cultural history
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Wen Hsin Yeh (commerce)
Commerce and consumerism acquired a glamour associated with modernity, new technology and the city
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Sarah Stevens
'Figuring Modernity: The New Woman', woman question as a keyhole to address issues of modernity and the nation
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Kristine Harris
'The New Woman Incident', represented a moment of crisis for modernity
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New Life movement
government led civic movement for social reform
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Marie Claire Bèrgere
NL members presented consumerism as 'slavery to foreign influences'
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Ann Stoler

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'On Degrees of Imperial Sovereignty', argues that informal empire is an 'unhelpful euphemism' and that there is a spectrum of emprie

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Osterhammel

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Isabella Jackson

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Sun Yat Sen

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