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Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway Loan A Case Study of the Rights Recovery Movement

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Madeleine Chi
Madeleine Chi
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Manhattanville College, Purchase, New Yorky
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During the first decade of the twentieth century, foreign residents in China observed a noticeable change in the temper of the Chinese people. It was more than a change in mood, but a wave of activities, a dynamic force aimed at the recovery of China's sovereign rights. The movement was so intense that Japanese diplomats in Peking called it the ‘rights recovery fever’. Sir Ernest Satow, British minister in China, remarked that the movement was a manifestation of ‘the consciousness of national solidarity, which is entirely a new phenomenon in China’.

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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , January 1973 , pp. 85 - 106
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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