Britain in China

Robert Bickers is Professor of History and Deputy Head (Research) at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol

出版者:Manchester University Press

作者:Robert Bickers

页数:276

出版时间:1999-7-15

价格:USD 35.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780719056970

丛书系列:Studies in Imperialism

图书标签:毕可思英国中国近代史都市主义租界租借殖民地来华西方人

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.

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