Colonialism in China was a piecemeal agglomeration that achieved its greatest extent in the first half of the twentieth century, the last edifices falling at the close of the century. The diversity of these colonial arrangements across China's landscape defies systematic characterization. Bringing together an international team of experts, Twentieth Century Colonialism and China is an essential resource for students and scholars of modern Chinese history and colonialism and imperialism.

Introduction Colonialism and China Bryna Goodman and David S.G. Goodman Part 1: Colonial Governance and Questions of Identity 1. 'Good Work for China in Every Possible Direction': The Foreign Inspectorate of the Chinese Maritime Customs, 1854-1950 Robert Bickers 2. Negotiating the Nation: German Colonialism and Chinese Nationalism in Qingdao, 1897-1914 Klaus Mühlhahn 3. Things Unheard of East or West: Colonialism, Nationalism, and Cultural Contamination in Early Chinese Exchanges Bryna Goodman Part 2: Colonial Spaces and Everyday Social Interactions 4. The Peak: Residential Segregation in Colonial Hong Kong John M. Carroll 5. An Italian 'Neighbourhood' in Tianjin: Little Italy or Colonial Space? Maurizio Marinelli 6. The Colonial Space of Death: Shanghai Cemetries, 1844-1946 Christian Henriot 7. French Medicine in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century China: Rejection or Compliance in Far South Treaty Ports, Concessions and Leased Territories Florence Bretelle-Establet 8. Writing Home and China: Elisabeth Frey in Tianjin, 1913-1914 Yixu Lu and David S.G. Goodman Part 3: Late Colonialism and Local Consequences 9. Modernism and its Discontent in Shanghai: The Dubious Agency of the Semi-Colonized in 1929 Yiyan Wang 10. Equality and the 'Unequal Treaties': Chinese émigrés and British Colonial Routes to Modernity John Fitzgerald 11. Hong Kong and the New Imperialism in East Asia, 1941-1966 Prasenjit Duara 12. The Hapless Imperialist? Portuguese Rule in 1960s Macau Cathryn Clayton

Bryna Goodman is Professor of History at the University of Oregon, USA.