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AbstractIn the winter of 1945, the multinational Chinese Maritime Customs Service opened an inquiry into the cooperation of hundreds of its own employees with Japanese occupation forces in China. This was, as far as the historical record allows us to say, the most thorough investigation undertaken in China into collaboration during World War Two. This paper represents the first historical analysis of the Customs 'Staff Investigation Committee.' It argues that the investigation represented a new direction for the Customs Service in China. The investigation's underpinning rationale was that Customs staff, Chinese and foreign, served the Kuomintang government before any other notion of Chinese or Service interests—a dramatic change in direction for an organisation that had been emblematic of treaty-port China. The investigation thus offers historians an insight into the understudied final years of the Customs Service, into the late Republican government's efforts to deal with the legacy of imperialism, and into the extent and rationale of collaboration in Nationalist China.

Half title page -- Frontispiece -- Full title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- List of Tables and List of Figures -- Foreword -- Preface -- Orthography and Pronunciation -- Chapter 1: The Historical and Intellectual Background -- Chapter 2: The Temiars and their Religion -- Chapter 3: Temiar Religion (1967)-- Preface and Introduction -- Chapter 4: Temiar Religion (1967)--The Cosmos -- Chapter 5: Temiar Religion (1967)--Species -- Chapter 6: Temiar Religion (1967)--Souls -- Chapter 7: Temiar Religion (1967)--Spirit-mediumship -- Chapter 8: Temiar Religion (1967)--Theology -- Chapter 9: Field-report Correspondence with Edmund Leach -- Chapter 10: Temiar Mediumship in Context -- Chapter 11: Indigenous Religious Systems of the Malay Peninsula -- Chapter 12: Danger and Dialectic in Temiar Childhood -- Chapter 13: Rationalisation and Re-enchantment: Temiar Religion, 1964-94 -- Chapter 14: Temiar Religions, 1994-2012: Islam, Christianity, ʔalʉj Səlamad -- Afterword -- Appendix 1: Four accounts of H.D. Noone's work on Temiar Religion -- Appendix 2: Dance types and spirit-guide song genres -- Appendix 3: Further accounts of burial practices -- Appendix 4: Children's accounts of their dreams -- Bibliography -- Index.

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