@article{Ramírez Ruiz_2017, title={Neto and Giadán: The Last Two Spanish in the Qing Dynasty}, volume={4}, url={https://revpubli.unileon.es/index.php/sinologia/article/view/5266}, DOI={10.18002/sin.v4i1.5266}, abstractNote={<p align="LEFT">The present article examines the claim that</p><p align="LEFT">Manuel Giadán Ruiz and Jose Antonio Neto</p><p align="LEFT">González, Copper foundry workers, former</p><p align="LEFT">employees of Rio Tinto Company Limited in</p><p align="LEFT">Huelva, against the Government of the Republic</p><p align="LEFT">of China in 1912 for breach of contract of the</p><p align="LEFT">Imperial Copper Works. This enterprise was</p><p align="LEFT">owned by the Gansu Provincial Government.</p><p align="LEFT">Through this claim we can observe the causes of</p><p align="LEFT">the failure of the modernization attempts</p><p align="LEFT">carried out by the “Westernization Movement”</p><p align="LEFT">in late Qing times; and also we can see the</p><p align="LEFT">causes of frustration of Xinhai Revolution and</p><p>the beginnings of the Republic of China. In</p><p align="LEFT">particular, the “Neto and Giadan Claim” shows</p><p align="LEFT">how the nascent Republic of China is unable to</p><p align="LEFT">shake off the exploitation to which China was</p><p align="LEFT">subject by the colonial powers. In fact, through</p><p align="LEFT">this case, we see how the Republic of China was</p><p align="LEFT">forced to yield to the economic claims of any</p><p align="LEFT">European country, even to Spain, which at that</p><p align="LEFT">time lacked the coercive or military capacity to</p><p align="LEFT">impose its wishes on China. For the writing of this</p><p align="LEFT">article, we have used original documentation</p><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: xx-small;">from </span></span><em><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;">The Archive of Administration</span></span></em><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: xx-small;">, </span></span><em><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;">The</span></span></em></p><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Archive of National History</em></span></span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: xx-small;">; </span></span><em><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;">The Archive of</span></span></em></p><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Historical Miner of Red River Fundation</em></span></span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: xx-small;">; </span></span><em><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;">The</span></span></em></p><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Archive of Huelva Province</em></span></span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: xx-small;">; </span></span><em><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;">Archivo of Huelva</span></span></em></p><p align="LEFT"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS,Italic; font-size: xx-small;"><em>Diocesan, and The Archive Nerva Municipal</em></span></span><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="font-family: TrebuchetMS; font-size: xx-small;">. We</span></span></p><p align="LEFT">have supplemented this documentation with</p><p align="LEFT">the Belgian Foreign Ministry Archive and the</p><p align="LEFT">personal archives of Belgian “technicians” led</p><p align="LEFT">by "Belgian Mandarin" Paul Splingaerd and his</p><p align="LEFT">son Alphonse. They were the managers of the</p><p align="LEFT">industrialization process of Gansu Province</p><p>launched by the Taotai of Lanzhou Peng Yingjia.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Sinología hispánica. China Studies Review}, author={Ramírez Ruiz, Raúl}, year={2017}, month={Dec.}, pages={1–46} }