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From: Emma Holland, Centre for East Asian Studies [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 07 December 2010 13:14
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Subject: Treaty ports in modern China: Call for papers
'Treaty ports in modern China' 1st Call for papers University of Bristol,
7th-8th July 2011
In the sixty years after 1842 dozens of Chinese cities were opened to
foreign trade and residence under treaties more or less willingly signed,
or else in some cases as 'voluntarily opened marts'. Within many of these
cities foreign states acquired exclusive concessions, but in others
multi-national settlements were established, and all developed alongside
and were intertwined with forcibly acquired or reluctantly devolved 'leased
territories' and colonies. The outside world had come to China, building
bunds, and foreign-style houses along them. For ordinary Chinese abroad
began 'at home' – as W.C. Kirby has noted -- and they could taste it
there. Chinese men and women came from inland cities and towns to look at
the foreign-style cities and suburbs. Some foreign families lived and
worked in China over five generations. The treaty ports have in the past
been heralded as sites of Chinese modernization, and reviled as bridgeheads
of colonial occupation. Most had been returned to full Chinese sovereignty
by 1945. In recent years scholarship in China and overseas has started to
revisit these complex sites, individually, as national networks, or as a
single frontier-zone of Sino-foreign interaction, and even as prototypes of
late-twentieth century Special Economic Zones.
This conference, organised by the ESRC-funded project 'Tianjin Under Nine
Flags: Colonialism in Comparative Perspective', will bring together
scholars working on different aspects of this world. We invite proposals
for papers on individual concessions, networks of concessions, or on the
other facets of the treaty port world, such as extraterritoriality, the
foreign-dominated Chinese Maritime Customs, maritime space, foreign
communities, consular services etc. We seek to understand the specificities
of unique concessions and their host cities, but also how they interacted,
were inter-related, and are to be understood in broader comparative terms.
Topics might include: individual concessions; architecture; governance;
memorialisation; cultural and political brokers; law and treaties; land;
the economics of the treaty port world; traders; foreign residents;
policing; the press; travel writing; relations with Chinese residents;
conflict; collaboration; cohabitation; violence; social and cultural
policies. We would be very interested in receiving panel proposals with a
clear comparative shape, as well as individual papers.
Individual paper abstracts (max: 500 words), or panel proposals (3 paper
abstracts plus panel 500 word panel rationale), should be sent to the
Project Administrator, Annabel Lander [log in to unmask], no
later than 31st January 2011.
Please list the conference title in your email subject line, the title of
the title of the paper at the top of the abstract, and at the end list
name, institutional affiliation and contact information.
Informal enquires to: Professor Robert Bickers
([log in to unmask]).
The organisers expect to be able to contribute to some, though not
necessarily all, travel and accommodation expenses. A companion conference,
'Colonial circulations' is also being organised on 4-5 July. Project
website: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/tianjin-project/
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Emma Holland
CEAS Manager (CEAS)
Centre for East Asian Studies
School for Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS)
University of Bristol
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