ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|19 pages
The interest of our colonies seems to have been largely overlooked
Colonial Australia and Anglo-Chinese relations
chapter 5|27 pages
‘Coolies' or Huagong?
Conflicting British and Chinese attitudes towards Chinese contract workers in World War One France
chapter 6|18 pages
Sino-British relations in railway construction
State, imperialism and local elites, 1905–1911
chapter 10|13 pages
Nationalistic enthusiasm versus imperialist sophistication
Britain from Chiang Kai-shek's perspective
