Anglo-Chinese relations
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Anglo-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)
- 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 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 WWII
- 1949-91 - UK and PRC are on different sides of the Cold War
Between the UK and the People's Republic of China (1949 - 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
[edit] Merchants
[edit] Military
[edit] Missionaries
[edit] Academics
[edit] Chinese statesmen
[edit] See also
- 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
[edit] External sources
- 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
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