The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert Bickers

The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914

Robert Bickers

496 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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From opium wars, conquest and rebellion to the end of the Qing imperial dynasty, the history of the European colonial 'scramble' for China is one of brutality and idealism, oppression and adventure --- a story that is still central to the country'...

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