Gunboats and Diplomacy: Vice-Admiral Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt and the Shanghai Crisis in 1927–1928

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements
3. Contents VII
4. Individuals, Agency, and History “From the Middle” 1
5. Auguste Haussmann, the Lagrené Mission, and France in China in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century 13
6. Information and Informal Networks: The British Legation in Beijing, 1861–1875 39
7. From a “Man in the Middle” to a Man on the Margins: George E. Morrison, Journalist, Advisor, British Imperial Advocate 67
8. From Hankou to the Second Sino-Japanese War: Iwasaki Koyata and the Rise of the “Mitsubishi Arsenal” 97
9. Gunboats and Diplomacy: Vice-Admiral Reginald Yorke Tyrwhitt and the Shanghai Crisis in 1927–1928 127
10. “Aide and Chief Odd-job Man”: Joseph Alsop and the Politics of American Strategy in China, 1941–1945 167
11. Chen Cheng and Nationalist Army Reforms (1944–1945): The Search For National Salvation through Military Strengthening 201
12. Men in the Middle: History, Historiography and Great Power-China Relations, 1921–1949 229
13. Agency from the Middle 245
14. Notes on Contributors
15. Index