Germany's Colony in China

This book explores the economic development of Qingdao. It focuses on economic polices of the German colonial government and of the provincial government of the neighbouring Shandong. It shows how the Qingdao and Shandong economies fitted into East Asian and global trade patterns and how they became more fully integrated into the

Wai Ling So completed her doctorate at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London

1. Preface - A World of Change 2. In China - Qingdao and Shandong in the long Nineteenth Century 3. The Gold Standard, and German Economic Integration during the Great Depression, 1874-90 4. Regulating 'free trade' in German Qingdao 5. Drawing the boundary between the private and the public sector in China after 1901 6. Sino-German trade agreements, and local tensions in Shandong 7. Conclusion 8. Epilogue - Between 1908 and 1914 - A new cycle