The collection includes Chinese Maritime Customs Service lists, Whangpoo Conservancy Board reports (est. 1905), focusing on Whangpu River channel improvements, and Shanghai harbor and port reports (1920–1943).
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This is a collection consisting of the service lists of Chinese Maritime Customs Service and the reports generated by a related institution, the Whangpoo (also Whangpu) Conservancy Board. The Whangpoo Conservancy Board was established in December 1905 as part of the treaty requirements prescribed in the Protocol of Peking signed in 1901 after the Boxer War, with the main functions of carrying out the “straightening of the channel of the Whangpu River and of the improvement of the bars above and below Wusung together with the maintenance of such improvements.
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