The Powers' Privilege Of Inland River Navigation In China And The Modern Shipping Industry Of Hunan In The Late Qing Dynasty

Hunan has four rivers and one lake, the river system is developed. The steamer shipping industry was modem transportation initiating in Hunan.The powers caused its shipping industry by navigation privilege in Chinese inland river to monopolize the Hunan inland fiver,the national shipping industry hard developed in under the powers's shipping industry oppression and the repel.This article takes the late Qing Dynasty as a center,obtains from the powers's navigation privilege in Chinese inland river,discusses profile summarize about Hunan modem shipping industry,induces its characteristic,analyzes its influence,has a quite detailed study to the whole Hunan modem shipping industry in late Qing Dynasty.This article is divided four parts to elaborate modem shipping industry in Hunan:The first chapter elaborates the powers's navigation privileges established in Hunan inland fiver.Introduces to the Qing government's understanding and attitude of modem shipping industry in inland river.From the expansion of powers's modem shipping industry,analyzes Hunan to open the port the process,and the performance to loss of sovereignty in Hunan river navigation.The second chapter states the powers's modem shipping industry in Hunan by inland river navigation privilege asylum.Analyzes the powers's means to expand shipping industry in Hunan,emphasis espically British and Japanese expansion of the modem shipping industry in Hunan profile.The third chapter focuses on crevice national modem shipping industry in Hunan. Introduces mainly China merchants' steamship company and the Hunan local place shipping industry in Hunan's development.The fourth chapter has analysised and compared thecharacteristic and the influence about the modem shipping industry in Hunan.The Hunan modem shipping industry had deepened Hunan's semi-colonial semi-feudalism.