Chinese abolitionism: the Chinese Educational Mission in Connecticut, Cuba, and Peru

Rimner, Steffen

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“…146 Moreover, Qing China's investigations may have well represented one of the first steps of Asian abolitionism at the international level. 147 Furthermore, these investigations paved the way for the decision to station Chinese permanent envoys overseas. 148 Chen Lanbin, the head of the Cuban mission, and Yung Wing, the head of the Peruvian mission, were both appointed as the first full-fledged Chinese diplomats in the United States, Spain, and Peru.…”

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‘Parity with all nations’: The ‘coolie’ trade and the quest for recognition by China and Japan

Moli¹

2021

Leiden Journal of International Law

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This article explores the quest for sovereign equality by China and Japan as it unfolded in a specific historical moment, the third quarter of the nineteenth century. It does so by focusing on the debate around the ‘coolie trade’, i.e., the traffic of Chinese indentured labourers, which offered an opportunity for non-Western countries such as China and Japan to position themselves with respect to Western conceptions of ‘modernity’ or ‘civilization’ and thereby advance their quest for ‘parity with all nations’. Through a study of the Maria Luz case, decided in the early 1870s by Czar Alexander II and drafted by de Martens, the article sheds light on the different approaches of Japan and China with respect to international law at this critical historical juncture. Specifically, it shows that, although the coolie trade mostly affected China, it was Japan who first managed to reap a parity dividend by firmly condemning the practice, whereas China’s action was steered by the circumstances. Eventually, however, China’s growing interest in Chinese populations abroad paved the way for the establishment of its first permanent diplomatic representations overseas. For both countries, the events encapsulated by the Maria Luz case unveil an important, yet overlooked, moment in their quest for parity with all nations and, more generally, in their engagement with international law.

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‘Parity with all nations’: The ‘coolie’ trade and the quest for recognition by China and Japan

Moli¹

2021

Leiden Journal of International Law

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Plantation Colonialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i: The Case of Chinese Sugar Planters

Miller

2023

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies

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This chapter defines the force of planter sovereignty in the circa 30-year period in which Hawai‘i witnessed the demographic, topographical, and political ramifications associated with the formation of a migrant labor-based plantation complex. Complementing recent research on indigenous sovereignty in the islands, it applies the analytical prisms of plantation polity and racialization to interrogate planter-ruling elite mediation in the contingent transition from a native- to migrant-dominated plantation labor force. Drawing on close engagement with the institutional, discursive, and operational archives of planters in Hawai‘i in the decades preceding US annexation, including Kingdom government records, an emergent Hawai‘i-based planter press, and planter correspondence, this chapter emphasizes how the plantation and planter networking figured in the contested and variegated state formation processes of late nineteenth-century Hawai‘i.

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Circuits of wealth, circuits of sorrow: financing the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the age of suppression, 1850–66

Harris¹

2016

Journal of Global History

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Slave traders forced more than 1.65 million captive Africans aboard illegal transatlantic slave ships during the nineteenth century. This article focuses on the final phase of this brutal traffic, between 1850 and 1866. It argues that slave traders sustained their illicit industry, in large part, by strategically coordinating their financial arrangements against a rising tide of international suppression. One key tactic was for slave trade investors in the United States, Cuba, Africa, and Iberia to lower the risks of interdiction by joining forces and co-financing voyages. Another was to combine with an international cast of merchants and bankers, who helped them launder slave trade capital and transmit it to their distant allies. This capital was concealed within broader currents of global commerce, which was, in turn, spurred by the growth of free trade in the nineteenth century. These myriad alliances and capital flows undergirded the trade until its final extinction in the 1860s.

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Chinese abolitionism: the Chinese Educational Mission in Connecticut, Cuba, and Peru

Cited by 5 publications

References 38 publications

‘Parity with all nations’: The ‘coolie’ trade and the quest for recognition by China and Japan

‘Parity with all nations’: The ‘coolie’ trade and the quest for recognition by China and Japan

Plantation Colonialism in Late Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i: The Case of Chinese Sugar Planters

Circuits of wealth, circuits of sorrow: financing the illegal transatlantic slave trade in the age of suppression, 1850–66

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