Anglo-Chinese relations

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Anglo-Chinese relations (Traditional Chinese: ; Simplified Chinese: }}}; pinyin: ), also known as Sino-British relations, refers to the interstate relations between China and the United Kingdom.

Contents

• 1 Chronology
• 2 Britons in China
• 2.1 Statesmen
• 2.2 Diplomats
• 2.3 Merchants
• 2.4 Military
• 2.5 Missionaries
• 2.6 Academics
• 3 Chinese statesmen
• 4 See also
• 5 External sources

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)

• 1984 - Sino-British Joint Declaration
• 1997 - Return of Hong Kong to China

Britons in 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

• 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

Merchants

• Lancelot Dent
• Keswick family
• William Jardine

Military

• Charles George Gordon

Missionaries

• Cambridge Seven
• Eric Liddell

Academics

• Joseph Needham

Chinese statesmen

• Li Hung Chang
• Chang Chih-tung

See also

• 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

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 ISBN 9781411688049 (Volume One); ISBN 9781411688056 (Volume Two)

 

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