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China Station (Hardcover, New)
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China Station (Hardcover, New)
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The Author, who lives in Shanghai, sets out to demonstrate that the
British military has been at the forefront of many of the great
changes that have swept China over the last two centuries. He
devotes chapters to the various wars, military adventures and
rebellions that regularly punctuated Sino/British relationships
since the 1st Opium War 1839-1842. This classic example of Imperial
intervention saw the establishment of Hong Kong and Shanghai as key
trading centres. The Second Opium War and the Taiping and Boxer
Rebellions saw the advancement of British influence despite
determined but unsuccessful efforts by the Chinese to loosen the
grip of Western domination. The Royal Navy's might ensured that, by
'gunboat diplomacy', trading rights and new posts were established
and great fortunes made. But in the 1940s the British grossly
underestimated Japanese military might and intentions with
disastrous results. After the Second World War the British returned
to find that the Americans had supplanted them. The Communists'
victory in the Civil War sealed British and Western fates and,
while Hong Kong remained under British control until 1997, the end
of British rule was almost inevitable. But the handover was a
masterly piece of pragmatic capitalism and the former Colony
remains an economic powerhouse with strong British influence.
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