The bund: Littoral space of empire in the treaty ports of East Asia

Taylor, Jeremy E.

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“…Modern Shanghai had been constructed, in the decade before Tan Malaka's arrival, along the waterfront Bund (another originally Persian word, which spread, via India, into wider colonial spheres) (Figure ). As Jeremy E. Taylor (: 125) notes, the Bund (like similar bunds elsewhere in East Asia) was then quickly becoming ‘one of the world's most recognizable skylines’, but it also was the embodiment of ‘an entire social system and lifestyle that came to East Asia’ via western gunboats and commerce. Tan Malaka's anti‐imperialism was deeply shaped by his experiences in Shanghai's streets, which he later projected on his understanding of mid‐1940s Indonesia, at a conjuncture when Dutch imperialism had been displaced by the Japanese (1941–45), Independence declared, atas nama bangsa Indonesia (in the name of the Indonesian nation), but the Dutch were seeking to return, assisted by Japan's sudden (atomic‐enforced) collapse and British imperial troops.…”

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Planetary postcolonialism

Sidaway

Woon

Jacobs

2014

Singap J Trop Geogr

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This position paper aims to frame and supplement other papers in this special issue on advancing postcolonial geographies. We offer five pathways for postcolonial geography: (i) narrating the planetary (which then configures the other paths), (ii) acknowledging other postcolonialisms, (iii) planetary indigeneity, (iv) seeing like an empire and (v) problematizing translations. These intersect and none are exhaustive. Nor are they completed routes. Instead the five paths that follow are offered as invitations to scholarly reflection and empirically informed research.

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Planetary postcolonialism

Sidaway

Woon

Jacobs

2014

Singap J Trop Geogr

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“…And although their like may be considered to have dated back hundreds and even thousands of years (Chen 1995), the terms of their administration have been variable. So, for example, in other instances-such as the bunds of treaty ports-not only was state extraterritoriality demarcated specifically as a littoral space, but the governance of such spaces precluded monopolies and inserted Western laissezfaire competitive processes into host-nation settings in which particular national economic interests were not necessarily privileged (Taylor 2002).…”

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Gaining from Globalization? State Extraterritoriality and Domestic Economic Impacts—The Case of Singapore

Phelps

2007

Economic Geography

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States have authored elements of globalization—deploying strategies to exert themselves extraterritorially. Such extraterritorial dimensions of state strategy are intimately connected to economic interests—although the economic interests in question and the geographic manifestations of extraterritoriality have varied historically for individual nation‐states and continue to vary among different nation‐states. This article examines one important example of this phenomenon. The rapid industrialization of Singapore at a time of rapid international economic integration has created a unique degree of urgency, depth, and breadth among contemporary state strategies of extraterritoriality. Drawing upon original research on joint‐venture industry and technology parks in China, Vietnam, Indonesia, and India, the article examines the extent and nature of economic benefits to the Singapore economy leveraged through this particular strategy of extraterritorialization. The modest scale of these benefits confirms both the limits of state strategies that are aimed at, and elite discourses regarding, “gaining from globalization.”

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“… 5 “Soochow Creek Bunding Committee: Report,” NCH , 23 May 1884, p. 586; Henriot 2010; Taylor 2002; Politzer 2005. See also “Meeting of Ratepayers,” NCH , 13 March 1896, p. 401.…”

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“… 15 Wilson 1930. Jeremy Taylor claims that “the generic space of the bund was unique in that it embodied many of the principles inherent in Victorian mercantile capitalism.” See Taylor 2002.…”

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Floating in Mud to Reach the Skies: Victor Sassoon and the Real Estate Boom in Shanghai, 1920s–1930s

Chung

2019

International Journal of Asian Studies

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The historical waterfront of Shanghai known as the Bund, one of the most impressive architectural landscapes in Asia, was described in the 1930s inFortunemagazine as having “the tallest buildings outside the American continent; the biggest hoard of silver in the world” and being “the cradle of new China”.1At a time when the US economy was in ruins and much of China was besieged by civil war, Shanghai's foreign concessions provided a safe haven for Chinese and foreign investors. With the influx of hot money, Shanghai experienced an unprecedented building boom. Notable among these real estate developers was Sir Ellice Victor Elias Sassoon (1881–1961, hereafter Victor Sassoon) who transferred much of his wealth from India to Shanghai and then transformed the Shanghai skyline. Inspired by American skyscrapers, Sassoon decided to build the first skyscraper in Shanghai, which would also be the first in the Eastern hemisphere, even though Shanghai's muddy ground had never supported a building of that height before. This article documents how the evolution of treaty port architecture in China owed much to Victor Sassoon. Its innovations – from the advent of skyscrapers, with their Art Deco style and mixed-use function, to the engineering methods and financial arrangements that built them – bore Sassoon's stamp. As will be seen, Sassoon's experiment paid off handsomely.

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The bund: Littoral space of empire in the treaty ports of East Asia

Cited by 21 publications

References 7 publications

Planetary postcolonialism

Planetary postcolonialism

Gaining from Globalization? State Extraterritoriality and Domestic Economic Impacts—The Case of Singapore

Floating in Mud to Reach the Skies: Victor Sassoon and the Real Estate Boom in Shanghai, 1920s–1930s

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