Description The UK has had one of the longest and most multifaceted relationships with China of any western industrialized nation.
Stretching back over two hundred years, this relationship is laden with meaning and is representative of the ways in which a modernizing China has tried to relate to a modernized country.
Britain's first sustained attempt to build ties with the Qing imperial court in the eighteenth century was focused primarily on trade.
Over the next 150 years, Brita.