{"product_id":"britain-in-china-community-culture-and-colonialism-1900-49-paperback","title":"Britain in China: Community, Culture and Colonialism, 1900-49 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Bickers\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is a study of Britain's presence in China both at its peak, and during its inter-war dissolution in the face of assertive Chinese nationalism and declining British diplomatic support. Using archival materials from China and records in Britain and the United States, the author paints a portrait of the traders, missionaries, businessmen, diplomats and settlers who constituted \"Britain-in-China\", challenging our understanding of British imperialism there. Bickers argues that the British presence in China was dominated by urban settlers whose primary allegiance lay not with any grand imperial design, but with their own communities and precarious livelihoods. This brought them into conflict not only with the Chinese population, but with the British imperial government. The book also analyzes the formation and maintenance of settler identities, and then investigates how the British state and its allies brought an end to the reign of freelance, settler imperialism on the China\u003cbr\u003ecoast. At the same time, other British sectors, missionary and business, renegotiated their own relationship with their Chinese markets and the Chinese state and distanced themselves from the settler British.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert Bickers is Professor of History and Deputy Head (Research) at the Department of Historical Studies, University of Bristol\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.85 x 9.19 x 6.18 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 15, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47503326052530,"sku":"9780719056970","price":51.21,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ae86f7dcb09e41403ae12a0857fb73de.webp?v=1779485930","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/britain-in-china-community-culture-and-colonialism-1900-49-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}