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A Big Ben with Chinese characteristics: the Customs House as urban icon in Old and New Shanghai

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2006

JEFFREY N. WASSERSTROM
JEFFREY N. WASSERSTROM
Affiliation:
Department of History, University of California, Irvine, CA 96697, USA
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A huge clock, made at Whitechurch by Messrs. J. B. Joyce and Co … has been sent to Shanghai, for the new Chinese Maritime Customs House. The clock, weighing nearly 30 tons, will probably be the Big Ben of the Far East.

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Urban History , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , May 2006 , pp. 65 - 84
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2006 Cambridge University Press

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