The Diplomacy of Imperial Retreat: Britain's South China Policy, 1924-1931

by Edmund S.K. Fung

Confronted by Chinese nationalism and the rise of the revolutionary movement in South China, Britain commenced a retreat motivated by political, commercial, and economic considerations and aimed at the protection of British interests without reliance on gunboat diplomacy. This book analyzes British policy-making, diplomatic, military, and commercial, against the background of civil strife and political instability in China, and, in the wider sphere,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195852842
• ISBN13: 9780195852844
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.8"