[PDF] Battle For Beijing 1858 1860 eBook

Author : Harry Gelber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 41,76 MB
Release : 2016-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 3319305840

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The ‘battle for Beijing’ is universally – and quite wrongly – believed to have been about opium. This book argues that it was about freedom to trade, Britain’s demands for diplomatic equality, and French demands for religious freedom in China. Both countries agreed that their armies, which repeatedly prevailed over Chinese ones that were numerically superior, would stay out of Beijing itself, but were infuriated by China’s imprisonment, torture and death of British, French and Indian negotiators. At the same time, the British and French also helped the empire to battle rebels and to pocket port and harbour dues. They steered carefully between their political and trading demands, and navigated the danger that undue stress would make China’s fragile government and empire fall apart. If it did, there would be no one to make any kind of agreement with; much of East Asia would be in chaos and Russian power would soon expand. Battle for Beijing, 1858–1860 offers fresh insights into the reasons behind the actions and strategies of British authorities, both at home and in China, and the British and French military commanders. It goes against the widely accepted views surrounding the Franco-British conflict, proposing a bold new argument and perspective.

Author : James L. Hevia
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,68 MB
Release : 2003-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822331889

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DIVA re-evaluation of British Imperialism in nineteenth-century China from the perspective of postcolonial theory./div

Author : W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D.
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 12,31 MB
Release : 2004-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1402252056

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A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium Wars In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts. Britain was also a nation addicted—to tea, grown in China, and paid for with profits made from the opium trade. When China tried to ban the use of the drug and bar its Western smugglers from it gates, England decided to fight to keep open China's ports for its importation. England, the superpower of its time, managed to do so in two wars, resulting in a drug-induced devastation of the Chinese people that would last 150 years. In this page-turning, dramatic and colorful history, The Opium Wars responds to past, biased Western accounts by representing the neglected Chinese version of the story and showing how the wars stand as one of the monumental clashes between the cultures of East and West. "A fine popular account."—Publishers Weekly "Their account of the causes, military campaigns and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing, frequently macabre and deeply unsettling."—Booklist

Author : Matsuda Wataru
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 29,67 MB
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136821090

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This volume ties together the histories of Japan and China for the modern period prior to the 20th century. The chapters look at Chinese and Japanese works which were written in response to events in the other country. None of these works has received any sustained attention in the west. As a result we get a view of how Chinese and Japanese saw each other at a time when there were few personal contacts allowed. Many of these texts were built on fanciful embellishments of stories that migrated from one land to the other. But the unique qualities of the Sino-Japanese cultural bond seem to have conditioned the interaction so that these texts all reveal a fascinatingly well-defined area.

Author : Jeffrey W. Cody
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 11,44 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 1606060546

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Accompanies an exhibition held at the J. Paul Getty Museum, 8 February-1 May 2011.

Author : Anne Lacoste
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 160606035X

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The fascinating life and work of an artist who captured some of the first photographs of the Far East are presented in this gorgeous volume.

Author : Victor Zatsepine
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0774834129

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Beyond the Amur describes the distinctive frontier society that developed in the Amur, a river region that shifted between Qing China and Imperial Russia as the two empires competed for natural resources. Although official imperial histories depict the Amur as a distant battleground between rival empires, this colourful history of a region and its people tells a different story. Drawing on both Russian and Chinese sources, Victor Zatsepine shows that both empires struggled to maintain the border. But much to the chagrin of imperial administrators, various peoples – Chinese, Russian, Indigenous, Japanese, Korean, Manchu, and Mongol – moved freely across it in pursuit of work and trade, exchanging ideas and knowledge as they adapted to the harsh physical environment. By viewing the Amur as a unified natural economy caught between two empires, Zatsepine highlights the often-overlooked influence of regional developments on imperial policies and the importance of climate and geography to local, state, and imperial histories.

Author : David Scott
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 22,30 MB
Release : 2008-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0791477428

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Examines the images, hopes, and fears that were evoked during China’s century-long subservience to external powers.