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Download or read book Anglo-China written by Christopher Munn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the first three decades of British rule in Hong Kong, focusing on the troubled and controversial process of establishing a British colony at Hong Kong and on the reception of British rule by people in the region.
Book Synopsis Imperial Twilight by : Stephen R. Platt
Download or read book Imperial Twilight written by Stephen R. Platt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Anglo-China written by Christopher Munn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the first three decades of British rule in Hong Kong, focusing on the troubled and controversial process of establishing a British colony at Hong Kong and on the reception of British rule by people in the region.
Book Synopsis Anglo-Chinese Diplomacy 1906-1920 by : Kit-ching Chan Lau
Download or read book Anglo-Chinese Diplomacy 1906-1920 written by Kit-ching Chan Lau and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 1978-12-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book attempts to explain this aspect of Yüan Shih-k'ai's political power by analysing the relationship between him and Sir John Newell Jordan, British minister at Peking from 1906 to 1920.
Book Synopsis Anglo-Chinese Encounters Since 1800 by : Wang Gungwu
Download or read book Anglo-Chinese Encounters Since 1800 written by Wang Gungwu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A penetrating and sophisticated 2003 account of the relationship between China and imperial Britain.
Download or read book Foreign Mud written by Maurice Collis and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon selected anecdotal stories written by British observers, this text reconstructs the events of the illegal opium trade in Canton in the 1830s and the war between Britain and China that followed. The volume is illustrated with b & w maps, prints, and photographs. Irish-born Collis (1889-1975) served for many years in the Indian Civil Service in Burma and later became a writer and critic in London. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis Changing Corporate Governance Practices in China and Japan by : Masao Nakamura
Download or read book Changing Corporate Governance Practices in China and Japan written by Masao Nakamura and published by Palgrave MacMillan. This book was released on 2008-10-08 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Facing rapid globalization, it became evident that the traditional Chinese corporate governance mechanisms, which were heavily influenced by European and Japanese counterparts, had become obsolete. More transparent corporate governance mechanisms must be adopted to support China's continuing economic growth. In Japan, to public criticism that its bank-based corporate governance practices were responsible for the prolonged recession in the 1990s, the Japanese government and corporations undertook massive reforms of corporate governance mechanisms." "With contributions from well-known academics from China, Japan and North America, this book discusses issues associated with the transplantation efforts and the selective adaptations that have taken place in corporate governance practices in China and Japan."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis Britain and China, 1840-1970 by : Robert Bickers
Download or read book Britain and China, 1840-1970 written by Robert Bickers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as fi nance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on both sides, such as British worries about, and exaggeration of, the ‘China threat’, including to India, and British aggression towards, and eventual withdrawal from, China.
Book Synopsis Anglo-Chinese Commerce and Diplomacy by : Arthur John Sargent
Download or read book Anglo-Chinese Commerce and Diplomacy written by Arthur John Sargent and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Anglo-Chinese Calendar written by and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Lion and the Dragon by : Mark Simner
Download or read book The Lion and the Dragon written by Mark Simner and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2019-06-29 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the middle of the 19th-Century, Britain and China would twice go to war over trade, and in particular the trade in opium. The Chinese people had progressively become addicted to the narcotic, a habit that British merchants were more than happy to feed from their opium-poppy fields in India. When the Qing dynasty rulers of China attempted to suppress this trade--due to the serious social and economic problems it caused--the British Government responded with gunboat diplomacy, and conflict soon ensued. The first conflict, known as the First Anglo-Chinese War or Opium War (1839-42), ended in British victory and the Treaty of Nanking. However, this treaty was heavily biased in favour of the British, and it would not be long before there was a renewal of hostilities, taking the form of what became known as the Second Anglo-Chinese War or Arrow War (1857-60). Again, the second conflict would end with an 'unequal treaty' that was heavily biased towards the victor. The Lion and the Dragon: Britain's Opium Wars with China, 1839-1860 examines the causes and ensuing military history of these tragic conflicts, as well as their bitter legacies.
Book Synopsis Precarious Balance by : Ming K. Chan
Download or read book Precarious Balance written by Ming K. Chan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work closely considers the history and political importance of Hong Kong in the period 1842 to 1992.
Book Synopsis Anglo-Chinese Commerce and Diplomacy by : Arthur John Sargent
Download or read book Anglo-Chinese Commerce and Diplomacy written by Arthur John Sargent and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Anglo-Chinese Relations During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries by : Earl Hampton Pritchard
Download or read book Anglo-Chinese Relations During the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries written by Earl Hampton Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Macao and the British, 1637–1842 by : Austin Coates
Download or read book Macao and the British, 1637–1842 written by Austin Coates and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the British acquisition of Hong Kong is intricately related to that of the Portuguese enclave of Macao. The British acquired Hong Kong in 1841, following 200 years of European endeavours to induce China to engage in foreign trade. As a residential base of European trade, Portuguese Macao enabled the West to maintain continuous relations with China from 1557 onwards. Opening with a vivid description of the first English voyage to China in 1637. Macao and the Britishtraces the ensuing course of Anglo-Chinese relations, during which time Macao skillfully – and without fortifications – escaped domination by the British and Chinese. The account covers the opening of regular trade by the East India Company in 1770, including the 'country' trade between India and China and Britain's first embassies to Peking, and relates the bedeviling effect of the opium trade. The story culminates in the resulting war from which Britain won, as part of its concessions, the obscure island of Hong Kong. Among those who feature in this lucid and lively account are the merchant princes Jardine and Matheson, the missionary Robert Morrison, the artist George Chinnery, and Captain Charles Elliot, Hong Kong’s maligned founder. Austin Coates (1922–97), a former senior British civil servant in Hong Kong, Malaya, and Sarawak, left government service at age forty to pursue a professional writing career. Widely regarded as the most distinguished English-language author in Hong Kong, Coates remained a long-time Hong Kong resident, later dividing his time between Hong Kong and Portugal, where he died. Macao and the British is a companion to his other two books on Macao, A Macao Narrative and the historical novel City of Broken Promises. Both these books and his other novel, The Road, are also available in the Echoes series from Hong Kong University Press. "Macao history at its most readable. It … should be immediately snapped up by anyone who has been unlucky enough to have missed it up to now." – South China Morning Post "This study vividly introduces the general reader to historic Macau, once 'the outpost of all Europe in China' and foothold to East India Company officials and private merchants trading in Canton." – Clive Willis, Emeritus Professor of Portuguese Studies, University of Manchester and author of China and Macau "Macao and the British 1637–1842: Prelude to Hong Kong (1988), published originally in 1964 as Prelude to Hong Kong, was the first work on Macau by Austin Coates (1922–1997). It is the first comprehensive survey ever to be written on the English presence, the Anglo-Chinese-Portuguese relations in Macau, and the Portuguese settlement's strategic importance for the British China Trade." – Rogerio Puga, Assistant Professor of History, University of Macau
Book Synopsis Anglo-China, Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1870 by :
Download or read book Anglo-China, Chinese People and British Rule in Hong Kong, 1841-1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Crucial Years of Early Anglo-Chinese Relations, 1750-1800 by : Earl Hampton Pritchard
Download or read book The Crucial Years of Early Anglo-Chinese Relations, 1750-1800 written by Earl Hampton Pritchard and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
