The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914

by Robert Bickers

Book Overview

In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by Britain and other European powers - ferocious laws forbade all trade with the West outside one tiny area of Canton. Anyone teaching a European to speak Chinese could be executed. But as new technology began to unbalance the relationship, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. China should be opened, they believed, so they broke down its doors and built a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0713997494
• ISBN13: 9780713997491
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Allen Lane
• Length: 495 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.1" x 9.4"