Shanghai Declared Export Returns

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ID	217
Name	Shanghai Declared Export Returns
Title	Shanghai Declared Export Returns
Year	1924
Author	Arnold, Julean, Commercial Attache, American Legation, Peking
Collection	NARA, General records of the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce (RG151)
Sub collection	Trade Promotion, Foreign Trade, Business Conditions (China, 1923-1924)
Reference Number	File Class 411, Box 1747
Repository type	Archive
Description	Letter from Arnold, Commercial Attache, Peking, dated January 30, 1924, to the Director of the BFDC, Washington, suggesting to delete a sentence from any published statements, as not being in keeping with facts ("The year 1923 was probably the most disturbed year in the history of China")
Comment	File Class 411, Box 1747, 1923-1924, p.33 This correspondence reveals the importance of exchanges between central (Washington) and local (Peking) offices of the Bureau. This letter suggests that local representatives like Arnold acted as China experts and relied on their expertise (In that case, Arnold's knowledge of Chinese history and present situation) to comment, if not criticize, the assumptions stated by bureaucratic superiors in their home country.
Keywords	business ; history ; export ; expert ; circulation ;

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