Atkins, Martyn Patrick

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0102 MS 380578
Held at	: School of Oriental and African Studies   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.soas.ac.uk/Archives/home.html ›
Full title	: Atkins, Martyn Patrick
Date(s)	: 1992
Level of description	: Collection (fonds)
Extent	: 1 volume
Name of creator(s)	: Atkins | Martyn Patrick | fl 1992 | historian

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

The Chinese Maritime Customs (formerly the Imperial Maritime Customs) collected customs duties from foreign ships and administered port facilities on behalf of the Chinese Government. It was managed mainly by foreigners, largely British. The appointment of a new Inspector-General in 1928 caused controversy between the Chinese and British governments, having implications for Western business interests in China and relations between the two countries.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Typescript thesis, 'Informal Empire in Crisis: British Diplomacy and the Chinese Customs Succession, 1927-1929', for the degree of MA at Cornell University, USA, 1992.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

Unrestricted.

Conditions governing reproduction:

No publication without written permission. Apply to archivist in the first instance.

Finding aids:

Database.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Presented by the author in 1992.

Allied Materials

Related material:

The School of Oriental and African Studies holds records relating to the Chinese Maritime Customs, including papers of Edward Charles Mackintosh and Cecil Arthur Verner Bowra (Ref: PP MS 69), Sir Robert Hart (Ref: PP MS 67), and Sir Frederick Maze (Ref: PP MS 2). SOAS also holds the papers of Sir John Pratt (Ref: PP MS 5) and records of John Swire & Sons Ltd (Ref: JSS) relating to China, consulted for M P Atkins's thesis.

Publication note:

M P Atkins's thesis was published as Informal empire in crisis: British diplomacy and the Chinese customs succession, 1927-1929 (Cornell East Asia studies, no 74, c1995).

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Rachel Kemsley as part of the RSLP AIM25 project. Source: British Library OPAC.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Jul 2002