Great Britain and China, 1833-1860
Author | : William Conrad Costin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : William Conrad Costin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 1968 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Barclay Price |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 505 |
Release | : 2019-01-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1445686651 |
As China becomes a pre-eminent world power again in the twenty-first century, this book uncovers Britain's long relationship with the country and its people.
Author | : Michael Greenberg |
Publisher | : CUP Archive |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Opium trade |
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Author | : Stephen R. Platt |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 592 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307961745 |
As China reclaims its position as a world power, Imperial Twilight looks back to tell the story of the country’s last age of ascendance and how it came to an end in the nineteenth-century Opium War. As one of the most potent turning points in the country’s modern history, the Opium War has since come to stand for everything that today’s China seeks to put behind it. In this dramatic, epic story, award-winning historian Stephen Platt sheds new light on the early attempts by Western traders and missionaries to “open” China even as China’s imperial rulers were struggling to manage their country’s decline and Confucian scholars grappled with how to use foreign trade to China’s advantage. The book paints an enduring portrait of an immensely profitable—and mostly peaceful—meeting of civilizations that was destined to be shattered by one of the most shockingly unjust wars in the annals of imperial history. Brimming with a fascinating cast of British, Chinese, and American characters, this riveting narrative of relations between China and the West has important implications for today’s uncertain and ever-changing political climate.
Author | : Britten Dean |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2020-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1684171814 |
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.
Author | : Alain Le Pichon |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 2006-08-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780197263372 |
263 letters written by or to William Jardine and James Matheson... covers a period of rapid growth for Jardine, Matheson & Co, from 1827 when the founders first joined forces, to Jardine's death in 1843, shortly after the end of the Opium War
Author | : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the Trade with China |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1840 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Wai-ki Luk |
Publisher | : Cambria Press |
Total Pages | : 227 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1934043869 |
The focus of this book is on Chinese immigration in the past two decades and its spatial manifestations in Britain. A major argument in this study is that if the 1980s can be recorded as a turning point in the history of Chinese immigration to Britain because the decade marked a substantial increase in and a diversity of Chinese immigrants, it should also be considered a landmark in contemporary British urban history as it featured a major transformation in the Chinese urban landscape. This book examines how changes in the contexts of exit and reception have stimulated quantitative and qualitative changes in Chinese immigration, and how these changes in immigration facilitate the development of Chinatowns and Chinese settlements.
Author | : Great Britain. Foreign Office |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : British |
ISBN | : |
Author | : G. Benton |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0230288502 |
This study points up the complex interplay of ethnic and national identities in the lives of Chinese in Britain, arguing that transnational studies reinforce essentialist conceptions of identity and cultural authenticity in diasporic communities, and thus frustrate the promotion of ethnic co-existence and social cohesion in multi-ethnic societies.