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Code of Customs Regulations and Procedure.
1933ref. 193029Shanghai: Statistical Department of the Inspectorate General of Customs 1933. The Bible of the Chinese customs service First edition; the first attempt to provide employees with a clear and concise reference. The chapters covering topics from tariffs and air freight to smuggling and the importation of weaponry reflect the scope of the service's economic and bureaucratic power in the interwar period. This working copy includes dozens of printed overslips issued to correct and update the text. The compilation process was overseen by two commissioners: Stanley F. Wright 1873-1953 the personal secretary to the inspector general Frederick Maze and André Braud a senior member of the inspectorate and the author of a guide to customs regulations used in Shanghai. Following Wright's retirement in 1933 he became the service's official historian and its "most prolific and ardent chronicler" Ladds p. 1. Second and third editions appeared in 1935 and 1937. Octavo. With 7 folding leaves. Text interleaved as issued with ruled leaves of paper; overslips tipped or pasted in throughout contemporary manuscript corrections to text. Original green quarter sheep spine lettered in gilt green cloth sides green surface-paper endpapers. Illegible contemporary ownership inscription on half-title; c. 1980s Shanghai bookseller's ticket on rear pastedown. Binding worn and stained occasional marking to edges and contents: very good. Catherine Ladds "Empire Careers: the Foreign Staff of the Chinese Customs Service 1854-1949" Ph.D. diss. February 2007. hardcover
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