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Author: Madeleine Chi
Publisher: Harvard Univ Asia Center
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9780674118256
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPreliminary Material -- War Spreads to the Far East -- Japan Bids for Supremacy in China -- Yuan Shih-ka'i Aspires to be Emperor -- European Containment -- American Compromise -- China Enters the War -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs.
Author: Madeleine Chi
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-17
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1684171628
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study of World War I diplomacy concerning China covers in detail the outbreak of the war in the Far East; China's attempt to join the allies in 1915; the secret agreements during 1917 between Japan and Great Britain, France, Italy, and Russia; and later negotiations relative to China's entry into the war.
Author: Zhiqun Zhu
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006-04-18
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1135989966
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUS-China Relations in the 21st Century addresses the bilateral relations of these two nations on an international, domestic, societal and individual level between 1990 and 2005. Peaceful power shifts remain a central dilemma in world politics, since historically power transition from a dominant nation to a challenger has been associated with international wars. This book examines whether China and the US can learn from history and manage a potential power transition peacefully. Zhiqun Zhu selects two important cases of power transitions in history as the background for this study: power rivalry between Great Britain and Germany that led to the First World War the peaceful power transition from Great Britain to the United States. US-China Relations in the 21st Century contributes to the current International Relations theory by proposing a new analytical model on global power transition and providing recommendations for peacefully handling a potential power transition from the US to China in the future. This original and comprehensive study is essential reading for scholars of US and Chinese foreign policy, world politics and international relations.
Author: Roberta Allbert Dayer
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-11-05
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 1135167583
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1981. Contrary to Chairman Mao's assertion that political power comes from the barrel of a gun, this study contends that political power in China in the early 1920s emanated from the boardrooms of foreign banks. The author's interest in the way financial concerns have shaped foreign policy began with the discovery that the Lloyd George government attempted to influence the American government's policy on the British war debts by offering concessions concerning the renewal of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. This study should provide understanding concerning the causes of Chinese bitterness as well as suggest the conflicts experienced by diplomats in balancing public and private interests.
Author: Kit-ching Chan Lau
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Published: 1978-12-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9789622090101
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book attempts to explain this aspect of Yüan Shih-k'ai's political power by analysing the relationship between him and Sir John Newell Jordan, British minister at Peking from 1906 to 1920.
Author: Robert Bickers
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2017-03-30
Total Pages: 675
ISBN-13: 1846146194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE The extraordinary and essential story of how China became the powerful country it is today. Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated and looted, China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most important stories: the long, often agonising process by which the Chinese had by the end of the 20th century regained control of their own country. Out of China uses a brilliant array of unusual, strange and vivid sources to recreate a now fantastically remote world: the corrupt, lurid modernity of pre-War Shanghai, the often tiny patches of 'extra-territorial' land controlled by European powers (one of which, unnoticed, had mostly toppled into a river), the entrepôts of Hong Kong and Macao, and the myriad means, through armed threats, technology and legal chicanery, by which China was kept subservient. Today Chinese nationalism stays firmly rooted in memories of its degraded past - the quest for self-sufficiency, a determination both to assert China's standing in the world and its outstanding territorial claims, and never to be vulnerable to renewed attack. History matters deeply to Beijing's current rulers - and Out of China explains why.
Author: Zhang Yongjin
Publisher: Springer
Published: 1991-03-20
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1349212385
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Robert Bickers
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2016-02-25
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 0141983507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of much of the rest of the world, carved into pieces by Europeans? Or could they adapt rapidly enough to maintain their independence? This important and compelling book explains the roots of China's complex relationship with the West by illuminating a dramatic, colourful and sometimes shocking period of the country's history.
Author: See Heng Teow
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-23
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 1684173191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMost existing scholarship on Japan’s cultural policy toward modern China reflects the paradigm of cultural imperialism. In contrast, this study demonstrates that Japan—while motivated by pragmatic interests, international cultural rivalries, ethnocentrism, moralism, and idealism—was mindful of Chinese opinion and sought the cooperation of the Chinese government. Japanese policy stressed cultural communication and inclusiveness rather than cultural domination and exclusiveness and was part of Japan’s search for an East Asian cultural order led by Japan. China, however, was not a passive recipient and actively sought to redirect this policy to serve its national interests and aspirations. The author argues that it is time to move away from the framework of cultural imperialism toward one that recognizes the importance of cultural autonomy, internationalism, and transculturation.
Author: Billy K.L. So
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-03-23
Total Pages: 501
ISBN-13: 1684173485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProsperity signifies success in economic performance. Economic performance always takes place in a spatial context. And institutions matter in economic performance. These three interwoven themes underlie this inquiry into the regional economy of southern Fukien province during the Sung and Yuan dynasties, when the area was one of the most prosperous regions in China. Through a meticulous reading of the sources, the author seeks to understand the meaning of prosperity in the premodern Chinese context and argues that we have to understand economic performance as a process occurring in space and influenced by institutions, which affect economic actors particularly through the means of transaction costs.
