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  • Out of China

    How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination

    by Robert Bickers ...
    "[This] thoughtful, engaging, and well-written analysis helps to separate fact from myth when it comes to understanding the nature of Chinese nationalism." — New York Review of BooksChina's new nationalism, Robert Bickers shows, is rooted not in its present power but in shameful memories of its former weaknesses. Invaded, humiliated, and looted in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by foreign ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China Bound

    John Swire & Sons and Its World, 1816 – 1980

    by Robert Bickers ...
    From its origins in Liverpool in 1816, one unusual British firm has threaded a way through two centuries that have seen tumultuous events and epochal transformations in technologies and societies. John Swire & Sons, a small trading company that began by importing dyes, cotton and apples from the Americas, now directs a highly diversified group of interests operating across the globe but with a ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Scramble for China

    Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914

    by Robert Bickers ...
    In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. Would the Chinese suffer the fate of much of the rest of the world, carved into pieces by Europeans? Or could they adapt rapidly enough to maintain their independence?This important ... Read more

    $19.09 USD

  • Out of China

    How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination

    by Robert Bickers ...
    Nationalism matters in China, and what matters in China matters to everyone. China’s new nationalism, Robert Bickers shows, is rooted not in its present power but in shameful memories of its former weaknesses. Invaded, humiliated, and looted in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by foreign powers, China looks out at the twenty-first century through the lens of the past. History matters deeply ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Getting Stuck in For Shanghai

    Putting the Kibosh on the Kaiser from theBund: The British at Shanghai and the Great War: Penguin Specials

    by Robert Bickers ...
    Series series Penguin China | Penguin Specials
    After 1914, between tiffin and a day at the race track, the British in Shanghai enjoyed a life far removed from the horrors of the Great War. Shanghai's status as a treaty port – with its foreign concessions home to expatriates from every corner of the globe – made it the most cosmopolitan city in Asia. The city's inhabitants on either side of the conflict continued to mix socially after the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Treaty Ports in Modern China

    Law, Land and Power

    Edited by Robert Bickers, Isabella Jackson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    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 the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities. Topics covered include land and how it was acquired, the flow of people, good ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Boxers, China, and the World

    Edited by Robert Bickers, R. G. Tiedemann ...
    In 1900, China chose to take on imperialism by fighting a war with the world on the parched north China plain. This multidisciplinary volume explores the causes behind what is now known as the Boxer War, examining its particular cruelties and its impact on China, foreign imperialism in China, and on the foreign imagination. This war introduced the world to the "Boxers," the seemingly fanatical, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Shanghai Policeman

    With a New Foreword by Robert Bickers

    by E. W. Peters ...
    Shanghai in the 1930s was one of the world's most dangerous cities, with kidnappings and murders daily occurrences. British police officer E.W. Peters of the Shanghai Municipal Police takes us down the city's dark lanes and alleys, through a crime-ridden underworld of brothels, opium dens and gambling parlors. This often riotous, true-crime chronicle is filled with colorful criminals, fumbled ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Britain and China, 1840-1970

    Empire, Finance and War

    Edited by Robert Bickers, Jonathan Howlett ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
    This book presents a range of new research on British-Chinese relations in the period from Britain’s first imperial intervention in China up to the 1960s. Topics covered include economic issues such as fi nance, investment and Chinese labour in British territories, questions of perceptions on both sides, such as British worries about, and exaggeration of, the ‘China threat’, including to India, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Invention of China

    by Bill Hayton ...
    "[A] smart take on modern Chinese nationalism" (Foreign Policy), this provocative account shows that “China”—and its 5,000 years of unified history—is a national myth, created only a century ago with a political agenda that persists to this dayChina’s current leadership lays claim to a 5,000-year-old civilization, but “China” as a unified country and people, Bill Hayton argues, was created far ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • A Modern History of Hong Kong

    1841-1997

    by Dr Steve Tsang ...
    This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story began in 1842 with the founding of the Crown Colony after the First Anglo-Chinese war - the original 'Opium War'. As premier power in Europe and an expansionist empire, Britain first created in Hong Kong a major naval station and the principal base to ... Read more

    $26.49 USD

  • Vietnam

    Rising Dragon

    by Bill Hayton ...
    An “enlightening and persuasive” (Jonathan Mirsky, New York Review of Books) survey of Vietnam as an emerging Asian powerThe eyes of the West have recently been trained on China and India, but Vietnam is rising fast among its Asian peers. A breathtaking period of social change has seen foreign investment bringing capitalism flooding into its nominally communist society, booming cities swallowing ... Read more

    $14.99 USD