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Donna Brunero. Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949.(Book review)

Donna Brunero. Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854-1949. Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia 36. London & New York: Routledge, 2006. xvi, 200 pp. Hardcover $120.00, ISBN 0-415-32619-2.

In the 1950s John King Fairbank argued that the Imperial Maritime Customs Service, established in 1854, represented a "synarchy"--that is, a jointly administered sino-foreign institution incorporating Westerners into the Chinese paradigm of foreign relations. (1) Scholars in the 1980s like Jurgen Osterhammel rejected this sinocentric analysis instead characterizing Britain's position in China as "informal empire." (2) More recently, ...

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