In the second half of an essay on his father’s career in China, Perry Anderson writes about the closing phases of the Chinese Maritime CustomsThis article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA. Other articles by this contributor: Kemalism · After the Ottomans Dégringolade · The Fall of France Russia’s Managed Democracy · Why Putin? Union Sucrée · The Normalising of France The Age of EJH · Eric Hobsbawm’s Memoirs Land without Prejudice · Berlusconi’s Italy Stand-Off in Taiwan · Greens v. Blues in the South China Sea Casuistries of Peace and War · the assumptions the Bush Administration and its critics share |