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Foreign Devils, Finance and Informal Empire: Britain and China c. 1900–1912

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 August 2006

IAN PHIMISTER
IAN PHIMISTER
Affiliation:
University of Sheffield and University of Pretoria
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Abstract

‘An imperial policy is essentially a commercial policy’

(Charles Addis, 1905)

‘Look at the way we have swindled the Chinese in the case of the Pekin Syndicate and still worse in the case of the Chinese Engineering and Mining Company’

(G.E. Morrison, 1906)

Type
Research Article
Information
Modern Asian Studies , Volume 40 , Issue 3 , July 2006 , pp. 737 - 759
Copyright
2006 Cambridge University Press

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Footnotes

Financial assistance from The Leverhulme Trust is gratefully acknowledged.