Towards the end of the nineteenth century the British Empire was confronted by two great Chinese questions. The first of these questions (often known as the 'Far Eastern question') related specifically to the maintenance of British interests on the China Coast and the broader im…
Towards the end of the nineteenth century the British Empire was confronted by two great Chinese questions. The first of these questions (often known as the 'Far Eastern question') related specifically to the maintenance of British interests on the China Coast and the broader im…
Reaching back to the arrival of the British in the 1780s, 'Britain, China, and Colonial Australia' explores the early history of Australian engagement with China and traces the development of colonial Australia into an important point of contact between the British and Chinese E…