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- Title: Britain and China, 1840-1970
- Author : Robert Bickers & Jonathan J. Howlett
- Release Date : January 16, 2015
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4483 KB
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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.