China and Great Britain

China and Great Britain

Author: Britten Dean

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-03-23

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1684171814

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Describes the expansion and transformation of China's economic relations with Great Britain, when China was forced to agree to a treaty settlement to open a larger number of ports to foreign trade.


British Admirals and Chinese Pirates, 1832-1869

British Admirals and Chinese Pirates, 1832-1869

Author: Grace Fox

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-10

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13: 0429874561

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This study, first published in 1940, examines in detail the suppression of piracy in China. From a starting point of the considering the influence of the Admiralty on the development of British foreign policy in the nineteenth century, it studies the actions of the China Station and in particular its undertakings to suppress piracy in the Far East.


Great Britain and the Opening of Japan 1834-1858

Great Britain and the Opening of Japan 1834-1858

Author: William G Beasley

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 1134244819

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Reissue in paperback (with new Introduction) of the 1951 classic analysis of the crucial years leading up to the Meiji restoration in which Britain provided Japan with its wealth and power model.