Fw: H-ASIA: Query: custom taxation council in China in 1925 with British participation

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From: "Andrew Field" <shanghaidrew@GMAIL.COM>
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Subject: H-ASIA: Query: custom taxation council in China in 1925 with
British participation

H-ASIA
Mar 25 2011

Query: custom taxation council in China in 1925 with British
participation
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From: Grokhovski <plgr@mail.ru>

Dear listmembers!

Thank you very much for your comments on the case of a bomb-smuggling
Bolshevik to 1925 Harbin.

I would like to ask another have a question concerning an episode in
Chinese
history of 1925 covered by the first issue of the Kalimpong Tibetophone
newspaper "Yul phyogs so so'i gsar 'gyur me long" ('The Mirror of News
from
Various Countries"), dated October 1, 1925

It makes the following statements:

1) A few months ago, several Chinese students put forth a false
accusation
against the Japanese and British merchants; although that seems to
have caused
unrest, now the unrest seems to calm down; still, there exists fear of
civil
war between Generals Zhang Tsolin and Feng Yuxiang: everyone of them
is trying
to take control over the rich Chinese province of Shanxi and Beijing.

2) Although several British officials from the UK came to China to
gather a
Council on (custom?) taxation and other things, if a civil war starts in
China, it will apparently be impossible to gather the Council.

The first statement seems to fit well with the general historical
account.

But, being no specialist in History, and, all the more so, in History of
China, I can not guess what kind of custom taxation council was
intended by
the British in China in 1925 and who were those "British officials".

Maybe specialists in Chinese history of that period could make some
suggestions regarding this case as well?

Yours sincerely,

Pavel Grokhovski,
Associate Professor, PhD,
Chair of Mongolian and Tibetan Studies,
Saint-Petersburg University, Russia

http://spbu.academia.edu/PavelGrokhovski
http://orient.pu.ru/dept_mongol/grohovsky.php

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