Zhang, Ning Jennifer, “Zai hua yingren jian de wenhua chongtu: shanghai "yundong jia" duikang "niaolei tuhai," 1890-1920” [Cultural conflicts in the British community in China: Shanghai "sportsmen" versus the "bird slaughterers," 1890-1920] (2000)

Title : “Zai hua yingren jian de wenhua chongtu: shanghai "yundong jia" duikang "niaolei tuhai," 1890-1920” [Cultural conflicts in the British community in China: Shanghai "sportsmen" versus the "bird slaughterers," 1890-1920]

Author(s) : Zhang, Ning Jennifer

Year : 2000

Type : Journal article

Subject : History

Keywords : foreigners

Journal : Zhongyang yanjiuyuan xiandaishi yanjiusuo jikan (Bulletin of the Institute of Modern History, Academia Sinica)

Volume : 34

Start page : 89

End page : 144

Language:Name : Chinese

Support : Print

Abstract : The ethos of the British in Shanghai in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, like that of their compatriots in Africa and India, valued certain sports as markers of middle-class status, a critical prop of empire. The influential Jardine Company, for example, coerced employees to join game bird shoots. After new cold storage technology enabled the London-based International Export Company (IEC) to harvest Shanghai area pheasants and other birds for the British market, the contention between the IEC and sportsmen, who mounted bird-preservation movements, revealed deep contradictions in the imperialist code.