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 CustomsPerry AndersonThis article is not currently available online. Buy reprint of this article. Perry Anderson teaches history at UCLA. Other articles by this contributor: Casuistries of Peace and War · the assumptions the Bush Administration and its critics share Russia’s Managed Democracy · Why Putin? Union Sucrée · The Normalising of France Kemalism · After the Ottomans 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 Dégringolade · The Fall of France |