Britain In China

Author : Evan Luard
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421433554

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Britain and China by Evan Luard Pdf

Originally published in 1962. This book is a study of relations between Britain and China. The first section surveys historical relations between the two nations and culminates with the Second World War. The second part examines British policy during the Chinese Civil War, the Korean War, and the Geneva Conference. The third part discusses what contemporary issues in British-Chinese relations were at the time the book was written.

Author : Robert Bickers,Jonathan J. Howlett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317419037

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Britain and China, 1840-1970 by Robert Bickers,Jonathan J. Howlett Pdf

This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as fi nance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on both sides, such as British worries about, and exaggeration of, the ‘China threat’, including to India, and British aggression towards, and eventual withdrawal from, China.

Author : Barclay Price
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781445686653

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The Chinese in Britain by Barclay Price Pdf

As China becomes a pre-eminent world power again in the twenty-first century, this book uncovers Britain's long relationship with the country and its people.

Author : Stephen R. Platt
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307961747

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Imperial Twilight by Stephen R. Platt Pdf

As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.

Author : Phoebe Chow
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317437413

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Britain's Imperial Retreat from China, 1900-1931 by Phoebe Chow Pdf

Britain’s relationship with China in the nineteenth and early twentieth century is often viewed in terms of gunboat diplomacy, unequal treaties, and the unrelenting pursuit of Britain’s own commercial interests. This book, however, based on extensive original research, demonstrates that in Britain after the First World War a combination of liberal, Labour party, pacifist, missionary and some business opinion began to argue for imperial retreat from China, and that this movement gathered sufficient momentum for a sympathetic attitude to Chinese demands becoming official Foreign Office policy in 1926. The book considers the various strands of this movement, relates developments in Britain to the changing situation in China, especially the rise of nationalism and the Guomindang, and argues that, contrary to what many people think, the reassertion of China’s national rights was begun successfully in this period rather than after the Communist takeover in 1949.

Author : Michael Greenberg
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Opium trade
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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British Trade and the Opening of China 1800-1842 by Michael Greenberg Pdf

Author : Ashley Thorpe,Diana Yeh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319711591

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Contesting British Chinese Culture by Ashley Thorpe,Diana Yeh Pdf

This is the first text to address British Chinese culture. It explores British Chinese cultural politics in terms of national and international debates on the Chinese diaspora, race, multiculture, identity and belonging, and transnational ‘Chineseness’. Collectively, the essays look at how notions of ‘British Chinese culture’ have been constructed and challenged in the visual arts, theatre and performance, and film, since the mid-1980s. They contest British Chinese invisibility, showing how practice is not only heterogeneous, but is forged through shifting historical and political contexts; continued racialization, the currency of Orientalist stereotypes and the possibility of their subversion; the policies of institutions and their funding strategies; and dynamic relationships with transnationalisms. The book brings a fresh perspective that makes both an empirical and theoretical contribution to the study of race and cultural production, whilst critically interrogating the very notion of British Chineseness.

Author : Christopher Munn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136838521

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Anglo-China by Christopher Munn Pdf

A study of the first three decades of British rule in Hong Kong, focusing on the troubled and controversial process of establishing a British colony at Hong Kong and on the reception of British rule by people in the region.

Author : Timothy Brook,Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 0520222369

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Opium Regimes by Timothy Brook,Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi Pdf

Opium Regimes draws on a range of research to show that the opium trade was not purely a British operation, but involved Chinese merchants and state agents, and Japanese imperial agents as well.

Author : Robert A. Bickers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : British
ISBN : UOM:39015048594868

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Britain in China by Robert A. Bickers Pdf

Author : Glenn Melancon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351954730

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Britain's China Policy and the Opium Crisis by Glenn Melancon Pdf

The first Opium War (1840-42) was a defining moment in Anglo-Chinese relations, and since the 1840s the histories of its origins have tended to have been straightforward narratives, which suggest that the British Cabinet turned to its military to protect opium sales and to force open the China trade. Whilst the monetary aspects of the war cannot be ignored, this book argues that economic interests should not overshadow another important aspect of British foreign policy - honour and shame. The Palmerston's government recognised that failure to act with honour generated public outrage in the form of petitions to parliament and loss of votes, and as a result was at pains to take such considerations into account when making policy. Accordingly, British Cabinet officials worried less about the danger to economic interests than the threat to their honour and the possible loss of power in Parliament. The decision to wage a drug war, however, made the government vulnerable to charges of immorality, creating the need to justify the war by claiming it was acting to protect British national honour.

Author : Donna Brunero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134340941

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Britain's Imperial Cornerstone in China by Donna Brunero Pdf

This book provides an overview of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service, focussing especially on its later years and in particular on the experiences of the foreign administration.

Author : Philip Snow
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300103735

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The Fall of Hong Kong by Philip Snow Pdf

The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years, a turning point in the process by which the British were to be expelled from the colony and from East Asia. This book unravels for the first time the dramatic story of the Japanese occupation and reinterprets the subsequent evolution of Hong Kong. "Magnificent. . . . The clarity of mind Snow brings to his labor of storytelling and contextualizing is] amazing."--John Lanchester, Daily Telegraph "Beautifully written, with many telling anecdotes."--Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs "Very good. . . . Provides] a much more nuanced picture than has appeared before in English of life among Hong Kong's different communities before and during the Japanese occupation."--Economist

Author : Jessica Hanser
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300245073

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Mr. Smith Goes to China by Jessica Hanser Pdf

An account of eighteenth-century global commerce as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders, “written with verve and filled with arresting details” (Tonio Andrade, author of The Gunpowder Age). This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders—George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras—and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain’s imperial expansion and global network of trade, revealing how an unstable credit system and a financial crisis ultimately led to greater British intervention in India and China. “This book is a history of British seafaring and imperialism, written largely from a micro-level perspective, placing the focus on individual traders rather than the East India Company as a whole. But it is not only an imperial history. It also unravels the interwoven financial, political and social relations between Britain, China and India in the eighteenth century . . . Hanser has consulted an impressively wide range of archival sources in different languages and located in various countries, from private letters to periodicals, and from official Chinese documents to East India Company reports. Her work contributes to our understanding of 18th-century British imperial history.” —Reviews in History

Author : Elizabeth Chang
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804775878

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Britain's Chinese Eye by Elizabeth Chang Pdf

This book traces the intimate connections between Britain and China throughout the nineteenth century and argues for China's central impact on the British visual imagination. Chang brings together an unusual group of primary sources to investigate how nineteenth-century Britons looked at and represented Chinese people, places, and things, and how, in the process, ethnographic, geographic, and aesthetic representations of China shaped British writers' and artists' vision of their own lives and experiences. For many Britons, China was much more than a geographical location; it was also a way of seeing and being seen that could be either embraced as creative inspiration or rejected as contagious influence. In both cases, the idea of China's visual difference stood in negative contrast to Britain's evolving sense of the visual and literary real. To better grasp what Romantic and Victorian writers, artists, and architects were doing at home, we must also understand the foreign "objects" found in their midst and what they were looking at abroad.