Britain and China, 1840-1970

Robert Bickers is Professor of History at the University of Bristol, UK. Jonathan J. Howlett is a Lecturer in Modern Asian History at the University of York, UK.

Introduction 1. 'The Usual Intercourse of Nations': The British in Pre-Opium War Canton 2. British Intervention in the Taiping Rebellion 3. Britain and China, and India, 1830s-1947 4. The Interest of Our Colonies Seems to Have Been Largely Overlooked: Colonial Australia and Anglo-Chinese Relations 5. ‘Coolies’ or ‘Huagong’? Conflicting British and Chinese attitudes towards Chinese contract workers in World War One France 6. Sino-British Relations in Railway Construction: State, Imperialism and Local Elites, 1905-1911 7. Foreign investment in modern China: an analysis with a focus on British interests 8. Curative Finance: Francis Aglen, Bond Markets, and the Early Republic, 1911-1928 9. Expansion and Defence in the International Settlement at Shanghai 10. Nationalistic Enthusiasm versus Imperialist Sophistication: Britain from Chiang Kai-shek’s Perspective 11. ‘Decolonisation' in China, 1949-1959