Modern Shipping and Development & Transition of Hankou in Late Qing Dynasty
After modern shipping with ship transportation as its main form was introduced to China in the late Qing Dynasty,many cities were forcibly incorporated into the world market system and became vassals of the cap-italist market,and the urban development process completely shifted.During the Ming and Qing Dynasties,Ha-nkou was the largest and most prosperous inland water transport port in the central and western regions.After Ha-nkou opened up its port to engage in business and trade with foreign countries in 1861,modern shipping came a-long,and the modernization process of Hankou City opened.Under the influence of modern ship transportation,urban space gradually expanded from areas along small rivers to areas along big rivers,the urban economic struc-ture shifted from domestic trade to foreign trade,and the urban function of the modern shipping center initially e-merged.As a city whose prosperity came from business and water during the Ming and Qing dynasties,the process of investigating Hankou's urban changes caused by modern shipping in the late Qing Dynasty is beneficial to the research on the history of modern China's cities and transportation.
Modern shippingHankouurban spaceeconomic formationurban function
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