Anglo-Chinese relations

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Contents 1 Chronology 2 British people in China 2.1 Statesmen 2.2 Diplomats 2.3 Military 3 Chinese statesmen 4 See also

Chronology

Between the UK and the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911)

• 1839-42 First Opium War ended by the Treaty of Nanking
• 1856-60 Second Opium War
• 1858 - The Treaty of Tientsin signed by Lord Elgin.
• 1900 - The Boxer Rebellion
• 1901 - The Boxer Protocol

Between the UK and the Republic of China (1912 - , moved to Taipei in 1949)

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Between the UK and the People's Republic of China (1949 - )

• 1984 - Sino-British Joint Declaration
• 1997 - Return of Hong Kong to China

British people in China

Statesmen

• Sir Robert Hart 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

Military

• Charles George Gordon

Chinese statesmen

• Li Hung Chang

See also

• Franco-Chinese relations
• Anglo-Japanese relations

• history of foreign relations of China
• foreign relations of the Republic of China
• foreign relations of the People's Republic of China