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Bankers and Diplomats in China 1917-1925 The Anglo-American Experience
By Roberta Allbert Dayer
Copyright 1981
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
324 Pages
by
Routledge
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First Published in 1981. Contrary to Chairman Mao's assertion that political power comes from the barrel of a gun, this study contends that political power in China in the early 1920s emanated from the boardrooms of foreign banks. The author's interest in the way financial concerns have shaped foreign policy began with the discovery that the Lloyd George government attempted to influence the... Read more
Chapter 1 The Development of Foreign Control in China, 1842–1914; Chapter 2 The Effect of World War I on Foreign Influence in China; Chapter 3 From Versailles to Washington; Chapter 4 Bankers versus Diplomats, 1922–3; Chapter 5 Two Kinds of Interference: Lin-Ch'eng and Canton, 1923; Chapter 6 1924: The Shift toward Japan; Chapter 7 An End to Solidarity; Chapter 8 The Problem of Chinese Nationalism, 1925;
Biography
Roberta Allbert Dayer
