People's Republic of China–United Kingdom relations

British-Chinese relations (zh-tsp|t=中英關係|s=中英关系|p=Zhōng-Yīng guānxì), also known as Sino-British relations and Anglo-Chinese relations, refers to the interstate relations between China and the United Kingdom. Although on opposing sides of the Cold War, both countries were allies during World War II, and are members of the UN. But Because of the Cold War, First and Second Opium War, and the status of Hong Kong, and other issues, China-UK relations at some points in history have been complicated, but better at other times.

Chronology

Between the UK and the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911)
*1685 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung visits Britain and meets James II. [ [http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/chinese_in_britain1.shtml BBC] ]
*1793 George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney led the Macartney Embassy to Beijing
*1839-42 First Opium War ended by the Treaty of Nanking, first of the unequal treaties
*1856-60 Second Opium War
*1858 - The Treaty of Tientsin signed by Lord Elgin
*1868 - The Yangzhou riot
*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 World War II

Between the UK and the People's Republic of China (1950 - now)
*1950 - Britain recognises the PRC as the government of China
*1984 - Sino-British Joint Declaration
*1997 - Return of Hong Kong to China

Britons in China

tatesmen

* 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.

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
* Augustus Raymond Margary

Merchants

* Lancelot Dent
* Keswick family
* William Jardine

Military

*Charles George Gordon

Missionaries

*Robert Morrison
*Hudson Taylor
*Cambridge Seven
*Eric Liddell
*Gladys Aylward

Academics

*Frederick W. Baller
*Joseph Needham
*Jonathan Spence

Chinese statesmen

*Li Hung Chang
*Chang Chih-tung

Notes

ee also

*Anglo-Japanese relations
*Sino-French relations
*Foreign relations of imperial China
*China Policy Institute
**University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
*Foreign relations of the Republic of China (from 1911...)
** Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China (after 1949)
** Foreign relations of the Republic of China (...to today)
*British Chinese (Chinese people in the UK)

Further reading

* Pratt, JT. "China and Britain" (Collins, 1944).
* Gerson, JJ. "Horatio Nelson Lay and Sino-British relations". (Harvard University Press, 1972)
* Ruxton, Ian (ed.), "The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, British Envoy in Peking (1900-06)" in two volumes, Lulu Press Inc., April 2006 ISBN 9781411688049 ( [http://www.dhs.kyutech.ac.jp/~ruxton/Satow_Peking_Diary_Volume_One_PREVIEW.pdf Volume One] ); ISBN 9781411688056 ( [http://www.dhs.kyutech.ac.jp/~ruxton/Satow_Peking_Diary_Volume_Two_PREVIEW.pdf Volume Two] )
*Winchester, Simon. "The Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom". Harper (May 6, 2008). ISBN 9780060884598

External sources

* Erik Ringmar, [http://ringmar.net/europeanfury/ "Fury of the Europeans: Liberal Barbarism and the Destruction of the Emperor's Summer Palace"]
* [http://www.chinese-embassy.org.uk/eng/wjzc/zygx/t27071.htm Backgrounder: Sino-British Relations]