Intermediary elites in the treaty port world : Tong Mow-chee and his collaborators in Shanghai, 1873–1897
Author
Abe, Kaori
Date of Issue
2015School
College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Research Centre
Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Studies
Version
Accepted version
Abstract
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.
Subject
DRNTU::Social sciences::Political science::Political theory
Type
Journal Article
Series/Journal Title
Journal of the royal asiatic society
Rights
© 2015 The Royal Asiatic Society (published by Cambridge University Press). This is the author created version of a work that has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication by Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, The Royal Asiatic Society. It incorporates referee’s comments but changes resulting from the publishing process, such as copyediting, structural formatting, may not be reflected in this document. The published version is available at: [http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1356186315000139].
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