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Britain and China, 1840-1970 : empire, finance and war
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- Creator
- edited by Robert Bickers and Jonathan J. Howlett
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 250 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780415658768, 0415658764, 9781315687735
- OCLC
- ocn915032151
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "The usual intercourse of nations": the British in pre-Opium War Canton / John M. Carroll -- British intervention in the Taiping Rebellion / Stephen R. Platt -- Britain and China, and India, 1830s-1947 / Robert Bickers -- The interest of our colonies seems to have been largely overlooked: colonial Australia and Anglo-Chinese relations / Benjamin Mountford -- "Coolies" or "Huagong?": Conflicting British and Chinese attitudes towards Chinese contract workers in World War One France / Paul J. Bailey -- Sino-British relations in railway construction: state, imperialism and local elites, 1905-1911 / Koji Hirata -- Foreign investment in modern China: an analysis with a focus on British interests / Chen Qianping -- Curative finance: Francis Aglen, bond markets, and the early republic, 1911-1928 / Hans van de Ven -- Expansion and defence in the international settlement at Shanghai / Isabella Jackson -- Nationalistic enthusiasm versus imperialist sophistication: Britain from Chiang Kai-Shek's perspective / Sherman Lai -- Decolonisation in China, 1949-1959 / Jonathan J. Howlett