Weihaiwei Under British Rule
Weihaiwei Under British Rule

Author: Zhang Jianguo

Publisher:

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9781873877814

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Presents a view of the struggles over the attempted dismemberment of China that occurred during the final decades of the enfeebled Qing Dynasty. The invasions by the Imperial powers, especially Tsarist Russia and Japan, plus Germany and other Western powers prior to the establishment of the Chinese Republic are portrayed alongwith 258 photographs.

British Mandarins and Chinese Reformers
British Mandarins and Chinese Reformers

Author: Pamela Atwell

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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Drawing on previously untapped British and Chinese documents, this is a comparative study of British and Chinese administrative methods in the small rural district of Weihaiwei in the northeast Shantung Province. The British leased the territory from the Chinese in 1898 with the intention of maintaining traditional forms of government whenever possible. But in 1930, the Chinese officials of Chiang Kai-Shek's Nationalist government stepped in to administer the area. Ignoring the province's governmental heritage, instituting an inappropriate bureaucratic structure, and imposing continuous tax demands, they ultimately lost the faith and respect of the local people. A foreword by Dr. N. J. Miners compares and contrasts Weihaiwei's rendition to China in 1930 with the forthcoming return to Hong Kong to China in 1997.

Gunboats, Empire and the China Station
Gunboats, Empire and the China Station

Author: Matthew Heaslip

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-10-01

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1350176206

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Examining Britain's imperial outposts in 1920s East Asia, this book explores the changes and challenges affecting the Royal Navy's third largest fleet, the China Station, as its crews fought to hold back the changing tides of fortune. Bridging the gap between high level naval strategy and everyday imperial culture, Heaslip highlights the importance of the China Station to the British imperial system, foreign policy and East Asian geopolitics, while also revealing the lived experiences of these imperial outposts. Following their immersion into a new world and the challenges they encountered along the way, it considers how its naval officers were perceived by the Chinese populations of the ports they visited, how the two communities interacted and what this meant at a time of 'peace'. Against the changing nature of Britain's informal empire in the 1920s, Gunboats, Empire and the China Station highlights the complex nature of naval operations in-between major conflicts, and calls into question how peaceful this peacetime truly was.

Thistle and Bamboo
Thistle and Bamboo

Author: Shiona Airlie

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13:

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Biography of Sir James Stewart Lockhart, a British Colonial official in Hong Kong and China. He became a Confucian and was treated as a Chinese mandarin by the mandarins themselves. His beliefs helped to shape present-day Hong Kong.

A Theory of Enclaves
A Theory of Enclaves

Author: Evgeny Vinokurov

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780739124031

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Attempting to provide a fully-fledged theory of enclaves and exclaves, A Theory of Enclaves covers a wide scope of regions and territories throughout the world and satisfies the need for a systematic view on enclaves. This book covers 282 enclaves, with a combined population total of approximately three million, but the importance of enclaves is much higher because of their specific status and issues raised for both the mainland states and the surrounding states: Gibraltar was disproportionately large for British-Spanish relations throughout the last three centuries, Kaliningrad managed to cause a major crisis in the EU-Russian relations in 2002-03, Tiny Ceuta and Melilla have caused tensions in Spanish-Moroccan relations for more than three centuries and have recently become visible as conflict points at the EU level, German Buesingen was subject to several complex international treaties between Germany and Switzerland. Rather than viewing each enclave as a unique case, or even as an anomaly, A Theory of Enclaves provides a systematic investigation of enclave-related political and economic issues. Rich on maps and illustrations, A Theory of Enclaves strives to comprise three facets of enclaves' existence: political, economic, and social life.