New Resource - Chinese Maritime Customs Service: The Customs’ Gazette, 1869-1924

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Chinese Maritime Customs Service: The Customs’ Gazette, 1869-1924 is a collection of quarterly reports on trade published from 1869 to 1913 by the predominantly British-run Chinese Maritimes Customs Service (1854-1949). They were prepared and submitted by various custom houses based across China and provide insights into local and regional economic and social conditions, policing of customs and trade, and conditions at Treaty Ports.

Topics covered include numbers of vessels handled and tonnage, imports, exports, re-exports, internal transit, passenger traffic, revenue receipts, and more. The Gazette also has sections on quarterly reports on dues and duties, précis of fines and confiscations, notifications, rules and regulations, movement in the service, and appendixes. Treaty Ports represented are Newchwang (Yingkou), Tientsin, Chefoo (Yantai), Hankow, Chinkiang, Ningpo, Foochow, Amoy (Xiamen), Swatow (Shantou), Tamsui, Takow, Kiukiang, and Canton. Thirty issues are missing from the collection: 29-36 (1876-77), 45-46 (1880), 49-56 (1881-82), 61-64 (1884), and 77-84 (1888-89).

Of interest to scholars of East Asian studies, economics, international relations, postcolonial studies, British studies, and history. http://go.utlib.ca/cat/12243085

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