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Britain and China, 1840-1970 : empire, finance and war

Title
Britain and China, 1840-1970 : empire, finance and war / edited by Robert Bickers and Jonathan J. Howlett.
ISBN
9780415658768 (hardback)
0415658764 (hardback)
9781315687735 (ebook)
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.
Physical Description
xiv, 250 pages ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 25, 2015
Series
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia (2005) ; 108.
Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia ; 108
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"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.
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