Author: Zhongping Feng
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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A look at the British Government's policy towards China between 1945 and 1950.

Author: S.R. Ashton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135279659
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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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.

Author: Lanxin Xiang
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
ISBN: 9781563244605
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Examines the rivalry between the US and Britain over China between World War II and the Korean War, a link that has been neglected by scholars distracted by the dominant theme of the Cold War. Finds that the two governments did not collaborate in any significant manner, that the succession from one imperial power to another was not particularly friendly, that the British considered the US fetish for antagonizing Mao Tse Tung misguided and dangerous, that the US missed its chance to consolidate power in the region and began the slide to Viet Nam in 1950, and that Britain had no choice by then but to tie their wagon to the wayward US in order to salvage the remnants of British imperial spoil. Paper edition (unseen), $25. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author: Stephen Lyon Endicott
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719006203
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244

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Author: Archibald Ross Colquhoun
Publisher: London : P.S. King
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 66

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Author: Great Britain. Foreign and Commonwealth Office
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9780714651644
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 465

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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.

Author: Stephen Richard Ashton
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780714651644
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: S.R. Ashton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135279586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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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.

Author: Zhaodong Wang
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110706652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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The book is a systematic study of the China-Britain relationship during the 1942–1949 period with a particular focus on the two countries’ discussions over both the 1943 Sino-British treaty and the discarded Sino-British commercial treaty, the future of Hong Kong, and the political status of Tibet. These were dominated by two underlying themes: the elimination of the British imperialist position in China and the establishment of an equal and reciprocal bilateral relationship. The negotiations started promisingly in 1942–1943, but, by 1949, had failed to reach a satisfactory settlement. Behind the failure lay a complex set of domestic considerations and external factors, including the powerful infl uence of the United States. Even after seven decades, the failure still has a contemporary impact. Recent Sino-British disputes over the Hong Kong Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement and incessant Indo-Chinese confl icts and skirmishes over their unsettled borders all attest to the enduring legacy of the years 1942–1949 as setting the scene for subsequent Sino-British and Sino-Indian relations. From this perspective, the history has never left us.

Author: Michael J. Turner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0739126415
Category : Cold War
Languages : en
Pages : 370

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"This book examines Britain's role and influence in a pivotal decade. The postwar international order was still taking shape in the 1950s. Much was unsettled, and in these circumstances Britain could realistically expect to remain, and be treated as, one of the "Big Three" world powers along with the United States and Soviet Union. Some adjustments were required in British priorities and methods, in view of changing pressures and needs at home and abroad, but the continuing desire was to make Britain's position "tenable" in those parts of the world that were of special importance to British prestige, power, strategy, prosperity, and security. This book elucidates the motives behind key decisions, discusses their far-reaching consequences, explains why some options were taken and others rejected, and places British policy-making in the appropriate international context."--pub. desc.