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Understanding China’s world role has become one of the crucial intellectual exercises of the 21st Century. A full and sophisticated understanding of that topic requires us to capture some of the key complex and simultaneous interactions between the global and domestic levels in the study of China’s international behavior. The approach adopted here is receptive to work in International Relations that questions the notion that the domestic and international represent two different levels of analysis subject to their own internal logics. It also contributes to a further breaching of the divide between those in China studies who predominantly study China’s domestic society and politics, and those who focus mainly on its external relations. Notable too is the books adoption of a multidisciplinary approach. IR scholars are joined by historians, area studies specialists, social anthropologists, and environmental experts to examine, across three main sections of the book, Chinese conceptions of the country’s status and role in global politics; some of the transnational processes that are transforming China and other parts of the world; and the impact of globalization on China and the domestic responses—from resistance to embrace—that it generates.

China --- Chine --- Foreign relations. --- Foreign economic relations. --- Relations extérieures --- Relations économiques extérieures --- Relations extérieures --- Relations économiques extérieures

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European Economic Community countries --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Foreign economic relations --- Relations économiques extérieures --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- Relations économiques extérieures

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France --- Foreign economic relations. --- Foreign relations. --- Relations économiques extérieures --- Relations exterieures --- Relations économiques extérieures --- Imperialisme --- Colonies --- Histoire --- 1900-1945

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Politique énergétique --- Energy policy --- Géopolitique --- Geopolitics --- Pays de l'Union européenne --- European Economic Community countries --- Transcaucasie --- Caucasus, South --- Relations économiques extérieures --- Foreign economic relations

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Between its founding in 1854 and its collapse in 1952, the Chinese Maritime Customs Service delivered one-third to one-half of all revenue collected by China's central authorities. Much more than a tax collector, the institution managed China's harbors, erected lighthouses, and surveyed the Chinese coast. It funded and oversaw the Translator's College, which trained Chinese diplomats while its staff translated Chinese classics, novels, and poetry and wrote important studies on the Chinese economy, its financial system, its trade, its history, and its government. It organized contributions to international exhibitions, developed its own shadow diplomacy, pioneered China's modern postal system, and even maintained its own armed force. After the 1911 Revolution, the agency became deeply involved in the management of China's international loans and domestic bond issues. In other words, the Customs Service was pivotal to China's post-Taiping integration into the world of modern nation-states and twentieth-century trade and finance. If the Customs Service introduced the modern governance of trade to China, it also made Chinese legible to foreign audiences. Following the activities of the Inspectors General, who were virtual autocrats within the service and communicated regularly with senior Chinese officials and foreign diplomats, this history tracks the Customs Service as it transformed China and its relationship to the world. The Customs Service often kept China together when little else did. This book reveals the role of the agency in influencing the outcomes of the Sino-French War, the Boxer Rebellion, and the 1911 Revolution, as well as the rise of the Nationalists in the 1920s, and concludes with the Customs Service purges of the early 1950s, when the relentless logic of revolution dismantled the agency for good.

Customs administration --- Douanes --- History --- Histoire --- China --- Chine --- Foreign economic relations --- Foreign relations --- Relations économiques extérieures --- Relations extérieures --- Foreign economic relations. --- Foreign relations. --- History. --- Relations économiques extérieures --- Relations extérieures --- History of Asia --- anno 1800-1899