The Chinese Hsinhai Revolution: G. E. Morrison and Anglo-Japanese Relations, 1897-1920 - Hardcover

Woodhouse, Eiko

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415322626 ISBN 13: 9780415322621

Publisher: Routledge, 2003

Synopsis

The Chinese Hsinhai Revolution explores and explains for the first time the important role of G. E. Morrison in great power diplomacy in China from the end of the Russo-Japanese War to the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty. The work is based on a wide range of multinational scholarly sources and in order to develop the context in which Morrison carried out his personal diplomacy and to delineate the many-sided story into which Morrison has to be placed, Woodhouse has in addition to mining the very rich Morrison collection, drawn upon British, Japanese and American personal and official materials.

About this title

About the Author:

Eiko Woodhouse was formerly secretary to the consul-general in the Consulate-General of Japan, Sydney and gained a PhD at the University of Sydney.

Review:

'Woodhouse should be admired for endeavouring to position Morrision at the centre of the 1911 Revolution and heightening the significance of the part that Morrison played at this critical juncture in modern Chinese history.' - Royal Asiatic Society

'Eiko Woodhouse has written a thorough, well-documented study of Anglo-Japanese relations and policies in respect to China between 1897 and 1920.' - The China Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0415322626
• ISBN 13: 9780415322621
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288