Sino-British Negotiations and the Search for a Post-War Settlement, 1942–1949 : : Treaties, Hong Kong, and Tibet / / Zhaodong Wang.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Wang, Zhaodong,
• Place / Publishing House: München ;, Wien : : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Transformations of Modern China , 3
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XIX, 241 p.)

The book is a systematic study of the China-Britain relationship during the 1942–1949 period with a particular focus on the two countries’ discussions over both the 1943 Sino-British treaty and the discarded Sino-British commercial treaty, the future of Hong Kong, and the political status of Tibet....

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Abstract
• Contents
• Acronyms and Abbreviations
• List of Maps
• Note on the Text
• Romanisation
• Introduction
• Chapter I. Negotiations over the Abolition of British Extraterritoriality and Other Related Rights in China, 1942–1943
• Chapter II. The Abortive Sino-British Commercial Treaty, 1943–1948
• Chapter III. The Question of Hong Kong in Sino-British Relations, 1942–1945
• Chapter IV. The Unsettled Future of Hong Kong, 1946–1949
• Chapter V. Tibet and the Wartime Sino-British Relationship, 1942–1944
• Chapter VI. The Last Sino-British Rivalry for Tibet, 1944–1947
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index