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Language: en
Pages: 270
Authors: Evan Luard
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-01 - Publisher: JHU Press

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Originally published in 1962. This book is a study of relations between Britain and China. The first section surveys historical relations between the two nation
Britain and China, 1840-1970
Language: en
Pages: 266
Authors: Robert Bickers
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-07-16 - Publisher: Routledge

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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. Top
Imperial Twilight
Language: en
Pages: 609
Authors: Stephen R. Platt
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-05-15 - Publisher: Vintage

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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
The Fall of Hong Kong
Language: en
Pages: 530
Authors: Philip Snow
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony
British Naturalists in Qing China
Language: en
Pages: 269
Authors: Fa-ti FAN
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Western scientific interest in China focused primarily on natural history. Prominent scholars in Europe as well as W