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Britain in China (Paperback)
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Britain in China (Paperback)
Series: Studies in Imperialism
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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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