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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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About the Author
Robert Bickers is Professor of History and Deputy Head (Research) at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol
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[This] book adds considerably to our knowledge about the interplay of the different British constituencies in China. Ruth Henig, University of Lancaster
This mature and insightful volume could be considered under...'readable books to recommend to friends and students.
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- PublisherManchester University Press
- Publication date1999
- ISBN 10 0719056977
- ISBN 13 9780719056970
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- LanguageEnglish
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