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PublisherManchester University Press
ISBN-100719056977
ISBN-139780719056970
eBay Product ID (ePID)765680
Product Key Features
Book TitleBritain in China
Number of Pages288 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicInternational Relations / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Asia / India & South Asia, Asia / China
Publication Year1999
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Social Science, History
AuthorRobert Bickers
Book SeriesStudies in Imperialism Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight14.6 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN99-039760
Series Volume Number34
Table Of ContentIntroduction: Rewriting Treaty Port History * Securing the Spoils * Creating British Society in China * Mythologising the Treaty Ports * Governing Treaty Ports * Policing in the Treaty Ports * Militarism in the Treaty Ports * Hong Kong * Conclusion: The Treaty Ports in Retrospect
SynopsisThis is a book-length study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support., This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British., This is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted "Britain-in-China", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China coast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British. -- .
LC Classification NumberDA47.9.C6B53 1999
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