Description
Author: Felton, Mark
Publisher: Pen and Sword
Place: Barnsley
Cover: dust jacket
Condition: New Book
Category: Military Reference
Year: 2013
Edition: 1st edition
Size: octavo
Description: vi + 217pp., b/w pls., appends., bibliog., index, Chapters to the various wars, military adventures and rebellions that regularly punctuated Sino/British relationships since the 1st Opium War 1839-1842; the establishment of Hong Kong & Shanghai as key trading centres. The Second Opium War & the Taiping & 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
