China Station: The British Militry in the Middle Kingdom, 1839-1997

A revelatory history of how Britain's military shaped China's culture and politics for more than a century.

Historian Mark Felton demonstrates that the British military has been at the forefront of many of the great changes that have swept China over the last two centuries, citing the various wars, military adventures and rebellions that regularly punctuated Sino/British relationships since the First Opium War 1839-1842. This classic example of Imperial intervention saw the establishment of...