British-Chinese relations
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British-Chinese relations (traditional Chinese: 中英關係; simplified Chinese: 中英关系; pinyin: Zhōng-Yīng guānxì), also known as Sino-British relations, refers to the interstate relations between China and the United Kingdom.
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[edit] Chronology
Between the UK and the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911)
- 1685 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung visits Britain and meets James II.[1]
- 1793 George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney led the Macartney Embassy to Beijing
- 1839-42 First Opium War ended by the Treaty of Nanking, first of the unequal treaties
- 1856-60 Second Opium War
- 1858 - The Treaty of Tientsin signed by Lord Elgin
- 1868 - The Yangzhou riot
- 1900 - 1901 - The Boxer Rebellion
- 1901 - The Boxer Protocol
Between the UK and the Republic of China (1912 - , moved to Taipei in 1949)
- 1939-45 - Chinese and British fight side by side in World War II
Between the UK and the People's Republic of China (1950 - now)
- 1950 - Britain recognises the PRC as the government of China
- 1984 - Sino-British Joint Declaration
- 1997 - Return of Hong Kong to China
[edit] Britons in China
[edit] Statesmen
- Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Chinese statesman.
- George Ernest Morrison resident correspondent of The Times, London, at Peking in 1897, and political adviser to the President of China from 1912 to 1920.
[edit] Diplomats
- Sir Thomas Wade - first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University
- Herbert Giles - second professor of Chinese at Cambridge University
- Harry Parkes
- Sir Claude MacDonald
- Sir Ernest Satow served as Minister in China, 1900-06.
- John Newell Jordan followed Satow
- Sir Christopher Hum
- Augustus Raymond Margary
[edit] Merchants
[edit] Military
[edit] Missionaries
[edit] Academics
[edit] Chinese statesmen
[edit] Notes
[edit] See also
- Anglo-Japanese relations
- Sino-French relations
- Foreign relations of imperial China
- China Policy Institute
- Foreign relations of the Republic of China (from 1911...)
- Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China (after 1949)
- Foreign relations of the Republic of China (...to today)
- British Chinese (Chinese people in the UK)
[edit] Further reading
- Pratt, JT. China and Britain (Collins, 1944).
- Gerson, JJ. Horatio Nelson Lay and Sino-British relations. (Harvard University Press, 1972)
- Ruxton, Ian (ed.), The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, British Envoy in Peking (1900-06) in two volumes, Lulu Press Inc., April 2006 ISBN 9781411688049 (Volume One); ISBN 9781411688056 (Volume Two)
- Winchester, Simon. The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom. Harper (May 6, 2008). ISBN 9780060884598
[edit] External sources
- Erik Ringmar, Fury of the Europeans: Liberal Barbarism and the Destruction of the Emperor's Summer Palace
- Backgrounder: Sino-British Relations
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