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China Bound - The Swire Group and Its World by Robert Bickers
$64.99 NZD
Category: Business & Finance
An unrivaled and comprehensive look at the 200-year story of Swire, a highly diversified, global group of companies including Cathay Pacific, with a rich and colorful history.The Swire Group, started by John Swire in 1816, had its beginnings as a modest Liverpool import-export company, focused mainly on ...Show more
Out of China: How the Chinese Ended the Era of Western Domination by Robert Bickers
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
Even at the high noon of Europe's empires China managed to be one of the handful of countries not to succumb. Invaded, humiliated and looted, China nonetheless kept its sovereignty. Robert Bickers' major new book is the first to describe fully what has proved to be one of the modern era's most important ...Show more
The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914 by Robert A. Bickers
$30.00 NZD
Category: History
In the early nineteenth century China remained almost untouched by British and European powers - but as new technology started to change this balance, foreigners gathered like wolves around the weakening Qing Empire. This book explains the roots of China's complex relationship with the West.
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