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The China Question - Great Power Rivalry and British Isolation, 1894-1905 (Hardcover, New)
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The China Question - Great Power Rivalry and British Isolation, 1894-1905 (Hardcover, New)
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Between 1894 and 1905 the question of the Chinese Empire's future
development, its survival even, was the most pressing overseas
problem facing the Great Powers. The frantic 'scramble for Africa'
and the often more intense drama of the 'Eastern Question'
notwithstanding, it was the 'China Question' that had the most
profound implications for the Powers.
Since China's defeat in the 1894-5 war with Japan, the country's
final disintegration was widely anticipated; and so was a wider
Great Power conflict in the event of China's implosion. At times,
that prospect seemed very real. The prospect of China's break-up
and of large-scale international conflict in its wake altered the
configuration among the Great Powers. Instability in the Far East
had ramifications beyond the confines of the region; and, as this
study shows, the events of 1894-5 initiated a wider transformation
of international politics. No Power was more affected by these
changes than Britain. The 'China Question', therefore, provides an
ideal prism through which to view the problems of late
nineteenth-century British world policy, and the policy of
'isolationism' in particular.
This study breaks new ground by adopting a deliberately global
approach in looking at British policy, emphasizing the connections
between European and overseas developments, and by encompassing
diplomatic, commercial, financial, and strategic factors as well as
the politics of foreign policy.
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