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China --- Chine --- Foreign relations --- Relations extérieures --- S09/0260 --- China: Foreign relations and world politics--General works: after 1949 ("Russia, U.S.A. and China" comes here too)

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"In 1950 the British government accorded diplomatic recognition to the newly founded People's Republic of China. But it took 22 years for Britain to establish full diplomatic relations with China. How far was Britain's China policy a failure until 1972? This book argues that Britain and China were involved in the 'everyday Cold War', or a continuous process of contestation and cooperation that allowed them to 'normalize' their confrontation in the absence of full diplomatic relations. From Vietnam and Taiwan to the mainland and Hong Kong, China's 'everyday Cold War' against Britain was marked by diplomatic ritual, propaganda rhetoric and symbolic gestures. Rather than pursuing a failed policy of 'appeasement', British decision-makers and diplomats regarded engagement or negotiation with China as the best way of fighting the 'everyday Cold War'. Based on extensive British and Chinese archival sources, this book examines not only the high politics of Anglo-Chinese relations, but also how the British diplomats experienced the Cold War at the local level."--Page 4 of cover.

Cold War --- Diplomats --- Diplomatic history --- History --- Great Britain --- China --- Foreign relations --- Decision making.

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This title introduces some of the most important English-language readings on the history of Hong Kong since the early 1840s, when it became a British colony, until 1997, when it reverted to Chinese sovereignty, and through the fifteen years since then. Each of the four volumes (Politics, Culture and Society, Economy, China and the World) contains approximately twenty readings arranged chronologically. The collection aims to maintain a diversity of opinions and approaches, and a balance between writings by local and overseas scholars. By far the most comprehensive collection of its kind, the set will be of interest to students and researchers interested in the history of Hong Kong, China, and colonialism and imperialism.

S27/0500 --- S27/0510 --- Hong Kong--History: general and before 1949 --- Hong Kong--History: since 1949 --- Hong Kong (China) --- History.