Postal Communication in China and Its Modernization, 1860–1896
Postal Communication in China and Its Modernization, 1860–1896

Author: Ying-wan Cheng

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-17

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1684171652

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Provides a history of the modernization of the Chinese postal service, with chapters on the problems of modernizing postal communication, the Ch'ing official post, letter agencies, early foreign postal establishments in China, the origin and development of the customs post, attempts to create a national postal service, and the establishment of the Imperial Post Office.

The Life of Paper
The Life of Paper

Author: Sharon Luk

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 328

ISBN-13: 0520296230

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Introduction : the life of paper -- The inventions of China -- Imagined genealogies (for all who cannot arrive) -- "Detained alien enemy mail : examined"--Censorship and the/work of art, where they barbed the/fourth corner open -- Ephemeral value and disused commodities -- Uses of the profane