Britain's retreat from empire in East Asia, 1905-80 / / edited by Antony Best.

• Superior document: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia
• Author: Naraoka, Sochi
• TeilnehmendeR: Best, Antony, 1964-
• Place / Publishing House: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York, NY : : Routledge,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (230 pages) :; illustrations, tables.
• Notes: Includes index.

"The decline of British power in Asia, from a high point in 1905, when Britain's ally Japan had vanquished the Russian Empire, apparently reducing the perceived threat that Russia posed to British interests in India and China, to the end of the twentieth century, when British power had dwi...

Table of Contents

• 1. Early retirement: Britain’s retreat from Asia, 1905–23
• 2. Imperial Germany’s strategy in East and South-East Asia: The campaign against British India
• 3. Japan’s Twenty-One Demands and Anglo-Japanese relations
• 4. Britain, intelligence and the Japanese intervention in Siberia, 1918–22
• 5. Britain, the League of Nations and Russian women refugees in China in the interwar period
• 6. Defending the ‘Singapore strategy’: Hankey’s Dominions tour, 1934
• 7. Conquering press: coverage by the New York Times and the Manchester Guardian on the Allied occupation of Japan, 1945–52
• 8. In search of regional authority in South-East Asia: The improbable partnership of Lord Killearn and Malcolm MacDonald, 1946–8
• 9. Anglo-American relations and the making and breaking of the Korean phase of the 1954 Geneva Conference
• 10. A withdrawal from Empire: Hong Kong–UK relations during the European Economic Community enlargement negotiations, 1960–3
• 11. From Vietnam to Hong Kong: Britain, China and the everyday Cold War, 1965–7
• 12. Towards ‘a new Okinawa’ in the Indian Ocean: Diego Garcia and Anglo–American relations in the 1960s.