Intermediary elites in the treaty port world : Tong Mow-chee and his collaborators in Shanghai, 1873–1897
This article examines the functions of Chinese and foreign intermediary elites in the commercial and political world of Shanghai, an international city in the nineteenth century mainly consisting of British, American, European and Chinese residents. Specifically, it focuses on the formation of t...
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| Language: | English |
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2015
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10356/94520 http://hdl.handle.net/10220/25583 |
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| Institution: | Nanyang Technological University |
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| Summary: | This article examines the functions of Chinese and foreign intermediary elites in the commercial and
political world of Shanghai, an international city in the nineteenth century mainly consisting of British,
American, European and Chinese residents. Specifically, it focuses on the formation of the socio-economic
network of Tong Mow-chee (Tang Maozhi 唐茂枝) (1828–1897), a well-known Chinese compradormerchant
serving the British firm Jardine Matheson & Co. and other anglophone and Chinese figures,
including William Venn Drummond and Tong King-sing who supported Mow-chee’s commercial and
political activities. My research mainly draws on English and Chinese sources and enables a deeper
understanding of the unofficial figures who contributed to the management of the international society of
Shanghai in the late nineteenth century, offering new insight into social roles of the middlemen operating
in an area of Britain’s informal empire in China. |
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