Intro -- Navigating Semi-Colonialism: Shipping, Sovereignty, and Nation-Building in China, 1860-1937 -- Contents -- Maps, Tables, and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Sovereign Concerns: The Formation of a Semi-Colonial Steam Transport Network, 1860-1911 -- 2. Aligning Capital and Flag: The Steam Shipping Business, 1860-82 -- 3. The Shipping Conference as Collaboration, 1882-1913 -- 4. The Steamship as Social Space, 1860-1925 -- 5. Shipping Nationalism: The Politics and Business of Shipping in China's Early Republic, 1912-27
6. Nanjing and Chongqing: The Return of the State to Shipping, 1927-37 -- 7. The "New Steamship": Transformations of Social Space, 1925-37 -- Conclusion: Decolonizing the Steamship Network, 1937-56 -- List of Chinese and Japanese Characters -- Abbreviations in Notes -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs