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Anglo-Chinese relations (), also known as Sino-British relations, refers to the interstate relations between China and the United Kingdom.

    Anglo-Chinese relations
        Chronology
            Statesmen
            Diplomats
            Merchants
            Military
            Missionaries
            Academics
        Chinese statesmen
        See also
        External sources

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Chronology
Between the UK and the Qing Dynasty (1644 - 1911)

1839-42 First Opium War ended by the Treaty of Nanking

1856-60 Second Opium War

1858 - The Treaty of Tientsin signed by Lord Elgin

1900 - 1901 - The Boxer Rebellion

1901 - The Boxer Protocol

Between the UK and the Republic of China (1912 - , moved to Taipei in 1949)

1939-45 - Chinese and British fight side by side in WWII

1949-91 - UK and PRC are on different sides of the Cold War

Between the UK and the People's Republic of China (1949 - now)

1950 - Britain recognises the PRC as the government of China

1984 - Sino-British Joint Declaration

1997 - Return of Hong Kong to China

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Statesmen

Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Chinese statesman.

George Ernest Morrison resident correspondent of The Times, London, at Peking in 1897, and political adviser to the President of China from 1912 to 1920.

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Diplomats

Sir Thomas Wade - first professor of Chinese at Cambridge University

Herbert Giles - second professor of Chinese at Cambridge University

Harry Parkes

Sir Claude MacDonald

Sir Ernest Satow served as Minister in China, 1900-06.

John Newell Jordan followed Satow

Sir Christopher Hum

Merchants

Military

Charles George Gordon

Missionaries

Academics

Chinese statesmen

See also

Anglo-Japanese relations

China Policy Institute

Foreign relations of imperial China

Foreign relations of the Republic of China

Foreign relations of the People's Republic of China

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External sources

Erik Ringmar, ''Fury of the Europeans: Liberal Barbarism and the Destruction of the Emperor's Summer Palace''

''The Diaries of Sir Ernest Satow, British Envoy in Peking (1900-06)'' in two volumes, Lulu Press Inc., April 2006

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