The British Empire and Tibet, 1900-1922 / by Palace, Wendy, 1947-

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The British Empire and Tibet, 1900-1922 / by Palace, Wendy, 1947-

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The Perils of Interpreting : The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire / by Harrison, Henrietta

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Hong Kong and British culture, 1945-97 / by Hampton, Mark, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Britishness, empire, and Hong Kong -- Hong Kong and British culture: postwar contexts -- The discourse of unbridled capitalism in postwar Hong Kong -- A man's playground -- The discourses of order and modernism -- Good governance and Chinese British -- Narratives of 1997 -- Epilogue: postcolonial hangovers.…”
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1368 : China and the making of the modern world / by Akhtar, Ali Humayun

Table of Contents: “…Five hundred years across the Indian Ocean and South China Sea -- Global Beijing under the Great Ming -- Picturing China in Persian along the silk routes -- Trading with China in Malay along the spice routes -- Europe's search for the Spice Islands -- A Sino-Jesuit tradition of science and mapmaking -- Porcelain across the Dutch Empire -- Tea across the British Empire -- China's eclipse and Japan's modernization -- Epilogue: A new turn to the East.…”
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Multiracial Britishness : global networks in Hong Kong, 1910-45 / by Kong, Vivian, 1990-

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From frontier policy to foreign policy : the question of India and the transformation of geopolitics in Qing China / by Mosca, Matthew W.

Table of Contents: “…A wealth of Indias : India in Qing geographic practice, 1644-1755 -- The conquest of Xinjiang and the emergence of "Hindustan," 1756-1790 -- Mapping India : geographic agnosticism in a cartographic context -- Discovering the "Pileng" : British India seen from Tibet, 1789-1800 -- British India and Qing strategic thought in the early nineteenth century -- The discovery of British India on the Chinese coast, 1800-1837 -- The Opium War and the British Empire -- Emergence of a foreign policy : Wei Yuan and the reinterpretation of India in Qing strategic thought.…”

From frontier policy to foreign policy : the question of India and the transformation of geopolitics in Qing China / by Mosca, Matthew W.

Table of Contents: “…A wealth of Indias : India in Qing geographic practice, 1644-1755 -- The conquest of Xinjiang and the emergence of "Hindustan," 1756-1790 -- Mapping India : geographic agnosticism in a cartographic context -- Discovering the "Pileng" : British India seen from Tibet, 1789-1800 -- British India and Qing strategic thought in the early nineteenth century -- The discovery of British India on the Chinese coast, 1800-1837 -- The Opium War and the British Empire -- Emergence of a foreign policy : Wei Yuan and the reinterpretation of India in Qing strategic thought.…”
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Walking between slums and skyscrapers : illusions of open space in Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Shanghai / by Huang, Tsung-yi Michelle

Table of Contents: “…Walking in Between EternalDual Compression; 1 Hong Kong: A Nodal Point of Dual Compression From British Empire Colony to Disney Kingdom Outpost; 2 Chungking Express: Walking With a Map of Desire in the Mirag e of the Global City; 3 Between Representations of Space and Representational Spaces: Flaneurie With the Camera's Eye; Part Two Bettwaso Gtobal Flows aod Carnal Fiows: Walking in Tokyo; 4 Mimesis: The Violence of Space; 5 From Mimesis to Mimicry: Memory, Subjectivity, and Space.…”
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Hong Kong in the Pacific War /

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The frontier complex : geopolitics and the making of the India-China border, 1846-1962 / by Gardner, Kyle

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Chinese Australians : politics, engagement and resistance /

Table of Contents: “…Editors' Note; List of Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Transformative Effect of Australian Experience on the Life of Ho A Mei, Hong Kong Community Leader and Entrepreneur; Chapter 2 Chinese Political Values in Colonial Victoria: Lowe Kong Meng and the Legacy of the July 1880 Election; Chapter 3 The Chinese Empire Encounters the British Empire and Its 'Colonial Dependencies': Melbourne, 1887; Chapter 4 Law as Politics: Chinese Litigants in Australian Colonial Courts.…”
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Robert Fortune: the tea thief /

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Shaping modern Shanghai : colonialism in China's global city / by Jackson, Isabella

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Crash course world history.

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The clash of empires : the invention of China in modern world making / by Liu, Lydia He

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Shaping modern Shanghai : colonialism in China's global city / by Jackson, Isabella

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Missionary women : gender, professionalism, and the Victorian idea of Christian mission / by Semple, Rhonda Anne, 1966-

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Edge of empires : Chinese elites and British colonials in Hong Kong / by Carroll, John M. 1961-

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China's superbank : Debt, oil and influence : How China Development Bank is rewriting the rules of finance. by Sanderson, Henry

Table of Contents: “…Chapter I: Introduction: From Caracas to Chengdu The global expansion of China, and the secret to its investment-driven growth at home, can't be explained without a good understanding of the one institution that ties the phenomenon that is China Inc -- together: China Development Bank -- The introductory chapter explains in broad terms the extent of the bank's involvement in China's global expansion and its domestic infrastructure boom -- As western financial institutions came close to collapse in 2008 China Development Bank began its expansion overseas, lending billions for Chinese companies to buy assets and taking a stake in one of the world's biggest financial firms, Barclays Plc -- Since then Chen Yuan, the bank's chairman, has defended the need for a state-owned policy bank to propel China's growth -- Other emerging industrializing countries, such as the British empire and the British East India Company, have also used state-led companies to boost their country's access to resources -- In many ways, China Development Bank is a modern-day equivalent, sending teams of executives to oversee projects from Venezuela to Egypt -- Chapter II: Building the Bank 1. …”
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