Britain and China, 1840-1970

Empire, Finance and War
Herausgeber: Bickers, Robert; Howlett, Jonathan

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Produktbeschreibung

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 finance, 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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 266
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9780415658768
• ISBN-10: 0415658764
• Artikelnr.: 39293733

Autorenporträt

Robert Bickers is Professor of History at the University of Bristol, UK. Jonathan J. Howlett is a Lecturer in Modern Asian History at the University of York, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. 'The Usual Intercourse of Nations': The British in
Pre-Opium War Canton 2. British Intervention in the Taiping Rebellion 3.
Britain and China, and India, 1830s-1947 4. The Interest of Our Colonies
Seems to Have Been Largely Overlooked: Colonial Australia and Anglo-Chinese
Relations 5. 'Coolies' or 'Huagong'? Conflicting British and Chinese
attitudes towards Chinese contract workers in World War One France 6.
Sino-British Relations in Railway Construction: State, Imperialism and
Local Elites, 1905-1911 7. Foreign investment in modern China: an analysis
with a focus on British interests 8. Curative Finance: Francis Aglen, Bond
Markets, and the Early Republic, 1911-1928 9. Expansion and Defence in the
International Settlement at Shanghai 10. Nationalistic Enthusiasm versus
Imperialist Sophistication: Britain from Chiang Kai-shek's Perspective 11.
'Decolonisation' in China, 1949-1959