My latest podcast is up on the New Books Network website! In it I interview Phoebe Chow bout her new book about the beginnings of the British withdrawal form their empire in China (which I reviewed here). Enjoy!
In the century that followed the Opium War Britain exerted a predominant influence in many areas of China. Their merchants sold goods irrespective of governmental objections, their missionaries enjoyed a privileged status to carry out their work, and their officials collected customs duties to fill ...