The China coast : A study of British shipping in Chinese waters 1842-1914
This study describes the development of British shipping in Chinese waters in the first seven decades of the treaty port era, and compares its success with the comparative lack of success of other British industries concerned with the China trade. The advantages resulting from British supremacy in India, extending east to Singapore, Hong Kong, and finally Shanghai, are examined, and the unique circumstances in China which made British maritime predominance possible. Cabotage - the reservation to a country of the maritime trade in its own waters - was denied China under the treaty port system, leading to international rivalry in shipping. In the backward state of China, the British companies developing the coast and river trade, had themselves to provide certain ancillary services such as dockyards, godowns, lighterage, insurance, etc. The principal British companies concerned, the China Navigation and Indo-China Steam Navigation Companies, accomplished this by drawing on the capital resources and expertise of their parent companies, John Swire and Sons and Jardine, Matheson and Company respectively. These powerful companies were able to negotiate favourable terms from their American and Chinese rivals on the
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The China coast : A study of British shipping in Chinese waters 1842-1914. This study describes the development of British shipping in Chinese waters in the first seven decades of the treaty port era, and compares its success with the comparative lack of success of other British industries concerned with the China trade. The advantages resulting from British supremacy in India, extending east to Singapore, Hong Kong, and finally Shanghai, are examined, and the unique circumstances in China which made British maritime predominance possible. Cabotage - the reservation to a country of the maritime trade in its own waters - was denied China under the treaty port system, leading to international rivalry in shipping. In the backward state of China, the British companies developing the coast and river trade, had themselves to provide certain ancillary services such as dockyards, godowns, lighterage, insurance, etc. The principal British companies concerned, the China Navigation and Indo-China Steam Navigation Companies, accomplished this by drawing on the capital resources and expertise of their parent companies, John Swire and Sons and Jardine, Matheson and Company respectively. These powerful companies were able to negotiate favourable terms from their American and Chinese rivals on the
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