Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination

591 Pages·2017·17.98 MB·English

by  Robert Bickers

Out of China

Robert Bickers
Out of China
How the Chinese Ended the
Era of Western Domination
harvard university press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
2017
Copyright © Robert Bickers, 2017
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America
First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by
Penguin Books Ltd., London
The moral right of the author has been asserted
Typeset by Jouve (UK), Milton Keynes.
Set in 10.5/14 pt Sabon LT Std
First Harvard University Press edition, 2017
First Printing
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
is available from the Library of Congress
ISBN 978-0-674-97687-0 (cloth : alk. paper)
For Kate, Lily and Arthur

Contents
List of Illustrations ix
List of Maps xiii
Acknowledgements xxvii
Pronunciation Guide xxix
List of Abbreviations xxx
Introduction xxxi
1. Armistice 1
2. Making Revolution 35
3. Good Earth 71
4. Talking it Over 101
5. China in the Mind 140
6. Monkeys Riding Greyhounds 174
7. Allies of a Kind 211
8. Foreign Experts 245
9. Light of Asia 289
10. Monsters and Demons 322
11. Unfinished Business 358
12. Haunted by History 399
Further Reading, Watching and Listening 409
Notes 413
Index 493

List of Illustrations
Every effort has been made to contact all copyright holders. The pub-
lishers will be pleased to make good in future editions any errors or
omissions brought to their attention.
1. Victory celebrations, Shanghai Race Course, 1 December 1918.
(Knight Collection, courtesy of Tessa Adams)
2. Chinese Amah. (Harold Peck Collection, courtesy of Elizabeth
Hensel)
3. Margot Fonteyn, 1928. (Hookham Collection, courtesy of
Lavina Exham)
4. Mikhail Borodin, and Morris ‘Two-gun’ Cohen, Guangzhou, c.
1926. (Fu Bingchang Collection, courtesy of Dr Yee-Wah Foo)
5. ‘A Direct Violation of the Principle of Humanity’, poster issued
by the Beijing United Medical Students Association in support of
the Shanghai Incident, 1925. (International Institute of Social
History, Amsterdam, Netherlands, call no. BG D12/730)
6. Shanghai Volunteer Corps in training, c. 1924. (Hutchinson Col-
lection courtesy of Barbara Merchant)
7. Weedy-women and a Shanghai lawn, c. 1930. (Library of Con-
gress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC)
8. Chuck Culbertson, on the polo field, 1940. (Courtesy of Bill
Callahan)
9. Buck Clayton and Joe McCutcheon in Shanghai, c. 1934
( University of Missouri-Kansas City, Miller Nicholls Library,
LaBudde Special Collections, Kansas City, MO)
10. Setting up the Chinese Exhibition at the Royal Academy, London,
1935. (Getty Images)
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