Routledge Library Editions: History of China

1 primary work

British Admirals and Chinese Pirates, 1832-1869

by Grace Fox

Published 10 October 2018

This study, first published in 1940, examines in detail the suppression of piracy in China. From a starting point of the considering the influence of the Admiralty on the development of British foreign policy in the nineteenth century, it studies the actions of the China Station and in particular its undertakings to suppress piracy in the Far East.