This book presents a wide range of new research on the Chinese treaty ports - the key strategic places on China's coast where in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries various foreign powers controlled, through "unequal treaties", whole cities or parts of cities, outside th…
In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multi-disciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer war, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperi…
In the new world order mapped out by Japanese and Western imperialism in East Asia after the mid-19th century opium wars, communities of merchants and settlers took root in China and Korea. New identities were construced, new modes of collaboration formed and new boundaries betw…
Explores the history of China from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to the present day. A new chapter for this edition brings the story into the era of Xi Jinping.
