The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 225 especially the US presence in the Chinese Customs,the second biggest cadre of foreign employees came from Germany,and an alternative Customs powerbase was located in Tianjin for most of the period 1878-1905 under Commissioner Gustav Detring."The German story needs telling,as does the Japanese one.The archive in Nanjing has much more yet to tell us about intra-imperial competition and conflict in China,about the ordinary worlds of Customs men and women,and about the place of the Maritime Customs in Chinese history. Acknowledgements The work of all the contributors to this collection was supported to varying degrees, directly and indirectly,by the Arts&Humanities Research Council award,APN16, 296,The History of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service,1854-1949 6220 Notes [1]Strahan,Australia's China. [2]See Fitzgerald,Big White Lie. [3]The English text of the original agreement is in Documents Illustrative of the Origin,Development, and Activities of the Chinese Customs Service V,597-98. [4]Fairbank,Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast,452-63. [5]Three overviews are:Hamashita,Chugoku kindai keizaishi kenkyu (Economic history of modern China);Chen,Zhongguo jindai haiguan shi (History of the modern Chinese Customs);Lyons, China Maritime Customs and China's Trade Statistics. [6]On Hart:Wright,Hart and the Chinese Customs;Fairbank,Bruner and Matheson (eds),The I.G. in Peking Bruner,Fairbank and Smith (eds),Entering China's Service;Smith,Fairbank and Bruner(eds),Robert Hart and China's Modernization.On Maze:Brunero,Britain's Imperial Cor- nerstone in China;Atkins,Informal Empire in Crisis;Clifford,'Sir Frederick Maze and the Chinese Maritime Customs.On Leith-Ross:Endicott,Diplomacy and Enterprise,and on the role of the Customs in Leith-Ross's thinking,see,for example,Rothwell,'Mission of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross to the Far East,164-66. [7]Important projects in progress include van de Ven's'Breaking with the Past,and Bocking, "Tariffs,Power,Nationalism and Modernity. [8]van de Ven,'Robert Hart and Gustav Detring. References Atkins,Martyn.Informal Empire in Crisis:British Diplomacy and the Chinese Customs Succession, 1927-29.Ithaca,NY:Cornell East Asia Series,1995. Bocking,Felix."Tariffs,Power,Nationalism and Modernity:Fiscal Policy in Guomindang-Controlled China 1927-41.PhD diss.University of Cambridge,in progress. Bruner,Katherine Frost,John King Fairbank,and Richard J.Smith,eds.Entering China's Service: Robert Hart's Journals,1854-63.Cambridge,MA:Harvard East Asian Monographs,1986. Brunero,Donna Maree.Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China:The Chinese Maritime Customs Service,1854-1949.London:RoutledgeCurzon,2006. Chen Shiqi,Zhongguo jindai haiguan shi(History of the Modern Chinese Customs).Peking:Renmin chubanshe,2002.especially the US presence in the Chinese Customs, the second biggest cadre of foreign employees came from Germany, and an alternative Customs powerbase was located in Tianjin for most of the period 1878 –1905 under Commissioner Gustav Detring.8 The German story needs telling, as does the Japanese one. The archive in Nanjing has much more yet to tell us about intra-imperial competition and conflict in China, about the ordinary worlds of Customs men and women, and about the place of the Maritime Customs in Chinese history. Acknowledgements The work of all the contributors to this collection was supported to varying degrees, directly and indirectly, by the Arts & Humanities Research Council award, APN16, 296, ‘The History of the Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854–1949’. Notes [1] Strahan, Australia’s China. [2] See Fitzgerald, Big White Lie. [3] The English text of the original agreement is in Documents Illustrative of the Origin, Development, and Activities of the Chinese Customs Service V, 597–98. [4] Fairbank, Trade and Diplomacy on the China Coast, 452–63. [5] Three overviews are: Hamashita, Chugoku kindai keizaishi kenkyu (Economic history of modern China); Chen, Zhongguo jindai haiguan shi (History of the modern Chinese Customs); Lyons, China Maritime Customs and China’s Trade Statistics. [6] On Hart: Wright, Hart and the Chinese Customs; Fairbank, Bruner and Matheson (eds), The I. G. in Peking; Bruner, Fairbank and Smith (eds), Entering China’s Service; Smith, Fairbank and Bruner (eds), Robert Hart and China’s Modernization. On Maze: Brunero, Britain’s Imperial Cor￾nerstone in China; Atkins, Informal Empire in Crisis; Clifford, ‘Sir Frederick Maze and the Chinese Maritime Customs’. On Leith-Ross: Endicott, Diplomacy and Enterprise; and on the role of the Customs in Leith-Ross’s thinking, see, for example, Rothwell, ‘Mission of Sir Frederick Leith-Ross to the Far East’, 164–66. [7] Important projects in progress include van de Ven’s ‘Breaking with the Past,’ and Bo¨cking, ‘Tariffs, Power, Nationalism and Modernity’. [8] van de Ven, ‘Robert Hart and Gustav Detring’. References Atkins, Martyn. Informal Empire in Crisis: British Diplomacy and the Chinese Customs Succession, 1927 –29. Ithaca, NY: Cornell East Asia Series, 1995. Bo¨cking, Felix. ‘Tariffs, Power, Nationalism and Modernity: Fiscal Policy in Guomindang-Controlled China 1927–41’. PhD diss. University of Cambridge, in progress. Bruner, Katherine Frost, John King Fairbank, and Richard J. Smith, eds. Entering China’s Service: Robert Hart’s Journals, 1854 –63. Cambridge, MA: Harvard East Asian Monographs, 1986. Brunero, Donna Maree. Britain’s Imperial Cornerstone in China: The Chinese Maritime Customs Service, 1854 –1949. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2006. Chen Shiqi, Zhongguo jindai haiguan shi (History of the Modern Chinese Customs). Peking: Renmin chubanshe, 2002. The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History 225 Downloaded By: [University of Bristol] At: 09:37 30 October 2009