Anglo-Chinese relations
Anglo-Chinese relations (), also known as
Sino-British relations, refers to the
interstate relations between
China and the
United Kingdom.
Between the UK and the
Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911)
*1839-42
First Opium War ended by the
Treaty of Nanking*1856-60
Second Opium War*1858 - The
Treaty of Tientsin signed by
Lord Elgin.
*1900 - 1901 - The
Boxer Rebellion*1901 - The
Boxer ProtocolBetween the UK and the
Republic of China (1912 - , moved to Taipei in 1949)
*1939-45 - Chinese and British fight side by side in WWII
*1949-91 - UK and PRC are on different sides of the
Cold WarBetween the UK and the
People's Republic of China (1949 - now)
*1984 -
Sino-British Joint Declaration*1997 - Return of
Hong Kong to China
Statesmen
*
Sir Robert Hart 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.
Diplomats
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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 HumMerchants
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Lancelot Dent*
Keswick family*
William JardineMilitary
*
Charles George GordonMissionaries
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Cambridge Seven*
Eric LiddellAcademics
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Joseph Needham*
Li Hung Chang*
Chang Chih-tung*
Franco-Chinese relations*
Anglo-Japanese relations*
China Policy Institute*
Foreign relations of imperial China*
Foreign relations of the Republic of China*
Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China* Erik Ringmar,
Fury of the Europeans: Liberal Barbarism and the Destruction of the Emperor's Summer Palace*
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)
