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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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For decades I was under the false impression Shanghai and other British or British influenced settlements in China were rightful parts of the British Empire. In fact the Treaty Ports allowed independent-minded settlers to establish themselves in China and provide the sole narrative of Chinese society for almost a century. From 1842 until after World War I, British government came to their rescue when needed but after the 1925 events in Shanghai, Britain preferred to reassert its authority on Chinese relations and gradually bypass the British communities in China. Business, diplomacy, christian missions are studied in their evolution from Old China to post-World War II and beyond. Unwittingly the authors created a key read on the history of globalization because it shows the clear transition from the First Globalization (1870-1914) to the Second Globalization (1970-today) with a passage from settler globalization to multinational corporate based globalization. In other parts of the World this transformation from Colonial Imperialism to Post-Modern Imperialism is rather blurred.
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British settlers in China, an unexpected look on Treaty Ports
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For decades I was under the false impression Shanghai and other British or British influenced settlements in China were rightful parts of the British Empire. In fact the Treaty Ports allowed independent-minded settlers to establish themselves in China and provide the sole narrative of Chinese society for almost a century. From 1842 until after World War I, British government came to their rescue when needed but after the 1925 events in Shanghai, Britain preferred to reassert its authority on Chinese relations and gradually bypass the British communities in China. Business, diplomacy, christian missions are studied in their evolution from Old China to post-World War II and beyond. Unwittingly the authors created a key read on the history of globalization because it shows the clear transition from the First Globalization (1870-1914) to the Second Globalization (1970-today) with a passage from settler globalization to multinational corporate based globalization. In other parts of the World this transformation from Colonial Imperialism to Post-Modern Imperialism is rather blurred.
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