Download or read book Britain and China 1945-1950 written by S.R. Ashton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of Britain's relations with China from the end of the World War II to the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950. This volume demonstrates how Britain's effort to recover something of its pre-war commercial pre-eminence in China were handicapped by its post-war financial weakness.