British Diplomacy and Finance in China, 1895-1914
British Diplomacy and Finance in China, 1895-1914

Author: E. W. Edwards

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13:

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Covering the eventful period from 1895 to 1914, this study of the British financial and industrial enterprise in China examines the relations between England and the other countries who were seeking to advance their ties with China, as well as the relations between government and financiers.

Sir Claude MacDonald, the Open Door, and British Informal Empire in China, 1895-1900
Sir Claude MacDonald, the Open Door, and British Informal Empire in China, 1895-1900

Author: Mary H. Wilgus

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-03-15

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1351120212

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First published in 1987. Great Britain secured and expanded its informal empire in China during the five years following the Sino-Japanese War. From 1895 through 1900 Lord Salisbury accepted England’s traditional, commercially oriented China policy and adapted it to dramatically altered political conditions in East Asia. Through the efforts of Sir Claude MacDonald, Britain met the commercial and political challenges of its European competitors and implemented the "open door," a strong but maligned policy. With the assistance of Britain’s indigenous collaborators, England managed to maintain a greatly weakened Manchu dynasty and to increase its financial, commercial, and informal political power in China without the use of military force or formal alliance. In order to help the reader understand Britain’s informal empire in China, the author reviews the historical background which brought China into Britain’s expanding economy.

Britain, Japan and China, 1876–1895
Britain, Japan and China, 1876–1895

Author: Yu Suzuki

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-12-29

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 042975549X

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This book revises the conventional wisdom about the Anglo-Japanese relationship in the late nineteenth century that these two countries were bound by mutual sympathy and common interests, and therefore the common ground which led to the signing of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance in 1902, had already existed in the 1880s. Such understandings fail to take account of the fact that the Qing dynasty of China had emerged as the strongest regional power in East Asia by reasserting its influence as the traditional suzerain of the region in the years prior to the First Sino-Japanese War. The British and the Japanese governments clearly recognised that it would become difficult to maintain their interests in East Asia if they antagonised the Qing by challenging its claim of suzerainty over Korea. It was difficult for them to come to closer terms when their priority before 1894-5 was to maintain good relations with China, and when they were also experiencing numerous diplomatic difficulties with each other.