Interesting talk at Bookworm this evening, by Robert Bickers, a Professor of History at Bristol University, on foreign intervention (negative) and interaction (positive) in China from 1842-1914. The start date was the First Opium War / Treaty of Nanking, the end date being the collapse of the Qing Dynasty / start of the First World War. Another book to buy... Curious fact: there were over 11,000 westerners working for the Chinese Customs authorities in the late 19th century.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
The Scramble for China
Interesting talk at Bookworm this evening, by Robert Bickers, a Professor of History at Bristol University, on foreign intervention (negative) and interaction (positive) in China from 1842-1914. The start date was the First Opium War / Treaty of Nanking, the end date being the collapse of the Qing Dynasty / start of the First World War. Another book to buy... Curious fact: there were over 11,000 westerners working for the Chinese Customs authorities in the late 19th century.
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