Going to War Against the Middle Kingdom? Continuity and Change in British Attitudes towards Qing China (1793–1840)
Gao, H
Date: 7 December 2016
Journal
The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History
Publisher
Taylor & Francis (Routledge)
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Abstract
This article investigates British attitudes towards Qing China as a consequence of their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the opium crisis. Examining this medium-term time span, to which previous scholarship has paid inadequate attention, shows the continuity and change in these attitudes through different historical ...
This article investigates British attitudes towards Qing China as a consequence of their early encounters from the Macartney embassy to the opium crisis. Examining this medium-term time span, to which previous scholarship has paid inadequate attention, shows the continuity and change in these attitudes through different historical contexts. With its focus on war-related discussions, this article reveals how the idea of war against the Chinese empire was developed and debated on the basis of these changing ideas. The First Anglo-Chinese War, to a great extent, could not have developed into the form and scale it did without these developments.
History
Collections of Former Colleges
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