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1 online resource |
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Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 108 |
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Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 108.
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| Contents |
"The usual intercourse of nations": the British in pre-Opium War Canton / John M. Carroll -- British intervention in the Taiping Rebellion / Stephen R. Platt -- Britain and China, and India, 1830s-1947 / Robert Bickers -- The interest of our colonies seems to have been largely overlooked: colonial Australia and Anglo-Chinese relations / Benjamin Mountford -- "Coolies" or "Huagong?": Conflicting British and Chinese attitudes towards Chinese contract workers in World War One France / Paul J. Bailey -- Sino-British relations in railway construction: state, imperialism and local elites, 1905-1911 / Koji Hirata -- Foreign investment in modern China: an analysis with a focus on British interests / Chen Qianping -- Curative finance: Francis Aglen, bond markets, and the early republic, 1911-1928 / Hans van de Ven -- Expansion and defence in the international settlement at Shanghai / Isabella Jackson -- Nationalistic enthusiasm versus imperialist sophistication: Britain from Chiang Kai-Shek's perspective / Sherman Lai -- Decolonisation in China, 1949-1959 / Jonathan J. Howlett |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Diplomatic relations
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| SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- China
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China -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
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| Subject |
China
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Great Britain
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bickers, Robert A., editor, author.
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Howlett, Jonathan J., editor, author.
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| ISBN |
9781315687735 |
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1315687739 |
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