The Chinese Hsinhai revolution : G.E. Morrison and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1897-1920 / Eiko Woodhouse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Woodhouse, Eiko.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920.

Morrison, George Ernest.

China--History--Revolution, 1911-1912.

China.

China--History--1861-1912.

China--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--China.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--Japan.

Japan--Foreign relations--Great Britain.

Japan.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1837-1901.

Great Britain--Foreign relations--1901-1936.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (283 p.)

Other Title:

G.E. Morrison and Anglo-Japanese relations, 1897-1920

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : RoutledgeCurzon, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The Chinese Hsinhai Revolution explores and explains for the first time the important role of G. E. Morrison in great power diplomacy in China from the end of the Russo-Japanese War to the overthrow of the Qing Dynasty. The work is based on a wide range of multinational scholarly sources and in order to develop the context in which Morrison carried out his personal diplomacy and to delineate the many-sided story into which Morrison has to be placed, Woodhouse has in addition to mining the very rich Morrison collection, drawn upon British, Japanese and American personal and official ma

Contents:

International relations in China, 1897-1905

The outbreak of the revolution

Morrison and Yuan Shih-kai

Sino-Anglo-Japanese diplomacy

Morrison's personal diplomacy, 1911-12

The effect of Morrison's work

China after the Hsinhai revolution.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-260) and index.

ISBN:

1-134-35241-7

1-280-28211-8

9786610282111

0-203-49388-5

9780203493885

OCLC:

246726739