Research On The Business Of Overseas Chinese Postal Agencies In Chaoshan

The Business of Overseas Chinese Postal Agencies came into being in Chaoshan-the east area in Guangdong Province. From the end of the Qing Dynasty through 1970s, the business of overseas Chinese letters and remittance experienced processes of emergence, development and termination ,undergoing the most chaotic time in Chinese modern history. Based on the business of Shui-ke in nineteen century, a operating network in this business came into being and soon grew up into a perfect and complex one in the 1930s. Then the War of Resistance Against Japan pushed this business into a hard situation and the new remitting approach had to be exploited. After the war, special affairs like abnormal development and exchange arbitrage appeared. During this period, this business got inevitably involved with domestic government, governments of residing countries, private mail offices and foreign post offices in China while developing. After the foundation of new China, the government reformed this business and incorporated it into the central bank gradually. Yet the private Overseas Chinese Postal Agencies had not ended until the late 1970s. The business of Overseas Chinese Letters and Remittance had played an influencing and effective role in the social economy of the Area of Chaoshan in more than one hundred years during its existence.