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Author: Christopher Munn
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-16
Total Pages: 487
ISBN-13: 1136838457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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: Kerry Brown
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Published: 2019
Total Pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781788211567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Michael Greenberg
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1969
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederick Storrs Turner
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Published: 1876
Total Pages: 332
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alain Le Pichon
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-08-10
Total Pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780197263372
DOWNLOAD EBOOK263 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
Author: Hao Gao
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2019-12-20
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 152613344X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCreating 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.
Author: Ashley Thorpe
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2018-09-18
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 3319711598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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: S.R. Ashton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-23
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 1135279586
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn 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: John Scarth
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Published: 1860
Total Pages: 38
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Timothy Brook
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2000-09-18
Total Pages: 470
ISBN-13: 9780520222366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOpium 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.
