Author: Christopher Munn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136838457
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
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.
Anglo-China
Author: Christopher Munn
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136838457
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136838457
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 487
Book Description
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.
The Future of UK-China Relations
Author: Kerry Brown
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788211567
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The UK has had one of the longest and most multifaceted relationships with China of any western industrialized nation. Stretching back over two hundred years, this relationship is laden with meaning and is representative of the ways in which a modernizing China has tried to relate to a modernized country. Britain's first sustained attempt to build ties with the Qing imperial court in the eighteenth century was focused primarily on trade. Over the next 150 years, Britain was at the forefront of some of the most infamous instances of Chinese encounters with the outside world, from the Opium Wars, the sacking of the Summer Palace, and the reparations for the Boxer rebellion of 1900 to the maintenance of Hong Kong as a colony. Since the return of Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997, policies of engagement have replaced those of confrontation and as China's economy has eclipsed that of the UK, the transformation of that relationship has become imperative for the UK. At a time when China's role in the world is becoming the focus of international business strategy and Brexit is pushing the UK to look to the rest of the world for trade and investment, Kerry Brown assesses the potential for a new "golden age" of UK-China relations and what the UK needs to understand about China before embarking on such a venture.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781788211567
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
The UK has had one of the longest and most multifaceted relationships with China of any western industrialized nation. Stretching back over two hundred years, this relationship is laden with meaning and is representative of the ways in which a modernizing China has tried to relate to a modernized country. Britain's first sustained attempt to build ties with the Qing imperial court in the eighteenth century was focused primarily on trade. Over the next 150 years, Britain was at the forefront of some of the most infamous instances of Chinese encounters with the outside world, from the Opium Wars, the sacking of the Summer Palace, and the reparations for the Boxer rebellion of 1900 to the maintenance of Hong Kong as a colony. Since the return of Hong Kong to Chinese rule in 1997, policies of engagement have replaced those of confrontation and as China's economy has eclipsed that of the UK, the transformation of that relationship has become imperative for the UK. At a time when China's role in the world is becoming the focus of international business strategy and Brexit is pushing the UK to look to the rest of the world for trade and investment, Kerry Brown assesses the potential for a new "golden age" of UK-China relations and what the UK needs to understand about China before embarking on such a venture.
British Trade and the Opening of China 1800-1842
Author: Michael Greenberg
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Opium trade
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Opium trade
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
British Opium Policy and Its Results to India and China
Author: Frederick Storrs Turner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Creating the Opium War
Author: Hao Gao
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152613344X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War – a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West in the next century. It makes the first attempt to bring together the political history of Sino-western relations and the cultural studies of British representations of China, as a new way of explaining the origins of the conflict. The book focuses on a crucial period (1792–1840), which scholars such as Kitson and Markley have recently compared in importance to that of American and French Revolutions. By examining a wealth of primary materials, some in more detail than ever before, this study reveals how the idea of war against China was created out of changing British perceptions of the country.
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 152613344X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Creating the Opium War examines British imperial attitudes towards China during their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the outbreak of the Opium War – a deeply consequential event which arguably reshaped relations between China and the West in the next century. It makes the first attempt to bring together the political history of Sino-western relations and the cultural studies of British representations of China, as a new way of explaining the origins of the conflict. The book focuses on a crucial period (1792–1840), which scholars such as Kitson and Markley have recently compared in importance to that of American and French Revolutions. By examining a wealth of primary materials, some in more detail than ever before, this study reveals how the idea of war against China was created out of changing British perceptions of the country.
China Trade and Empire
Author: Alain Le Pichon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263372
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
263 letters written by or to William Jardine and James Matheson... covers a period of rapid growth for Jardine, Matheson & Co, from 1827 when the founders first joined forces, to Jardine's death in 1843, shortly after the end of the Opium War
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780197263372
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
263 letters written by or to William Jardine and James Matheson... covers a period of rapid growth for Jardine, Matheson & Co, from 1827 when the founders first joined forces, to Jardine's death in 1843, shortly after the end of the Opium War
Britain and China 1945-1950
Author: S.R. Ashton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135279586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
An examination of Britain's relations with China from the end of the World War II to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. This volume demonstrates how Britain's effort to recover something of its pre-war commercial pre-eminence in China were handicapped by its post-war financial weakness.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135279586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
An examination of Britain's relations with China from the end of the World War II to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. This volume demonstrates how Britain's effort to recover something of its pre-war commercial pre-eminence in China were handicapped by its post-war financial weakness.
British Policy in China
Author: John Scarth
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Merchants of War and Peace
Author: Song-Chuan Chen
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888390562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888390562
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241
Book Description
Opium Regimes
Author: Timothy Brook
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520222366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520222366
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
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.