- List of Maps, Tables, and Figures*
- Acknowledgments
- Notes on the Text
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1. Nationalism, Nationalists, and Informal Empire
- 2. Making Nationalist Tariff Policy
- 3. The Maritime Customs as Economic Modernity
- 4. Nationalist Tariff Policy and the Import Trade
- 5. Trade, Tariffs, and Governance
- 6. Trade, Tariffs, and War, 1937–1945
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1: Custom Houses
- Appendix 2: Chinese and Japanese Names
- Bibliography
- Index
- * Maps, Tables, and Figures
- Maps
- Map 0.1. Custom houses, economic regions, and major transport houses.
- Map 3.1. Distribution of custom houses.
- Map 5.1. Nationalist-controlled areas, 1928–37.
- Map 5.2. Smuggling routes in the Tianjin area.
- Map 6.1. Japanese-occupied area of China, 1940.
- Tables
- Table 0.1. Foreign trade, modern manufacturing, and agriculture as a percentage of China’s gross national product.
- Table 2.1. Customs revenue and income tax as a percentage of central government revenue, selected countries, 1928–37.
- Table 2.2. Chinese and foreign Maritime Customs staff, 1926–48.
- Table 2.3. Foreign and domestic debt interest paid, as a percentage of central government expenditures, selected countries, 1928–37.
- Table 3.1. Scott Harding schedule of importers’ costs.
- Table 4.1. Wanxian sugar prices, 1922 and 1931.
- Table 4.2. Wagner’s fertilizer experiments.
- Table 5.1. Smuggled goods entering Tianjin Eastern Railway Station, 21 May 1936: Song Wuwei’s estimates.
- Table 5.2. Smuggled goods leaving Tianjin Eastern Railway Station, 21 May 1936: Song Wuwei’s estimates.
- Table 6.1. Personal income tax receipts (nominal value) as a percentage of total central government receipts, 1937–45.
- Table 6.3. National government receipts, 1937–45.
- Table 6.4. National government receipts, 1937–45, adjusted for inflation using July 1937 prices.
- Figures
- Figure 2.1. Relation of combined Maritime and Native Customs revenue to China’s foreign loans and indemnities, 1912–37, in pounds sterling.
- Figure 2.2. Relation of combined Maritime and Native Customs revenue to China’s foreign loans and indemnities, 1912–37, in Haiguan taels.
- Figure 3.1. Calculation of duty-paying values under the Scott Harding schedule.
- Figure 4.1. Maritime Customs revenue, 1928–37, in Standard Dollars.
- Figure 4.2. Value of import tariffs as a percentage of total import value, 1928–40.
- Figure 4.3. Shanghai customs revenue, 1926–33.
- Figure 4.4. The Shanghai and Hankou shares of total tariff revenue, 1926–40.
- Figure 4.5. Quantity and nominal value of imported sugar, 1925–40.
- Figure 4.6. Quantity and nominal value of imported kerosene, 1925–40.
- Figure 4.7. Nominal kerosene prices for Tianjin and Ningbo, 1922–31.
- Figure 4.8. Quantity and nominal value of imported ammonium sulphate, 1925–40.
- Figure 4.9. Quantity and nominal value of imported cigarettes, 1925–40.
- Figure 6.1. Share of Maritime Customs revenue collected in unoccupied China, September 1937–September 1941.
- Maps
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