Bickers - The Scramble for China: Foreign Devils in the Qing Empire, 1832-1914

Karl Gtzlaf in Chinese clothes, 1832, drawn by George Chinnery for Hugh Hamilton Lindsay (photograph courtesy of Peabody Essex Museum, M976541)

The only known image of Lindsay: Leaving Canton with Lindsay in a fast boat (1838), by William Prinsep (courtesy of HSBC)

The Tianhou Gong, Ningbo, photographer unknown (Bowra collection, Royal Society for Asian Affairs, London)

Harry Parkes, from Stanley Lane-Poole, Life of Sir Harry Parkes, i (London: Macmillan, 1894)

Ye Mingchen caricatured by Henry Hope Crealock, 1858, from Francis Martin Norman, Martello tower in China and the Pacific (London: George Allen, 1902)

Ye Mingchen in captivity, 1858, photographer unknown (Terry Bennet Collection)

View of Shanghai, c. 1860, artist unknown, possibly from photograph original. The Lindsay & Co. hong is to the right, with aviary (courtesy of Martyn Gregory Gallery, London)

Sacred space: the British graves in the Russian cemetery, Peking, c. 1863, photographer unkown (School of Oriental & African Studies, CWM/LMS/CH/PHOTO/13/079/004, reproduced by kind permission of Council for World Mission)

Royalty and the drug: the Duke of Edinburgh arrives at Hong Kong, 22 November 1869, flanked by opium hulks. John Thomson (The National Archives: CO 1069/446)

Robert Hart, c. 1866 (copyright Queens University Belfast, Sir Robert Hart Collection, MS 15)

c. 1900 (copyright Queens University Belfast, Sir Robert Hart Collection, MS 15)

The arsenel at Nanjing, 1871. John Thomson (Wellcome Library, London)

The path of duty was the path of glory: The Margary memorial, Shanghai, c. 1886 (Mellerick Album, MEL035, Chinese Museum Collection)

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Ruins of the Catholic Cathedral, Tianjin, 1871. John Thomson (Wellcome Library, London)

Beautiful uselessness: the marble boat, Summer Palace, Peking, c. 191920, photographer Warren Swire (John Swire & Sons)

Great Japanese Naval Victory off Haiyang Island by Nakamura Shk, 1894 (photograph 2011 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)

Cha-see: John Charles Oswald in a tea-tasting room, Fuzhou, 1890s (Oswald Collection, School of Oriental & African Studies)

R. F. C. Hedgeland, Customs officer, and his servants, Hoihow, Haikou, Hainan island, 1898 (Hedgeland Collection, School of Oriental & African Studies)

Jesus on the Cross: Shooting the pig and beheading the goats, puns on God and foreigners respectively

Pig sect gouging out eyes: foreign missionaries portrayed taking the eyes from a man; two others, blinded by them, kneel in the foreground. Illustrations 20 and 21 both from The Cause of the Riots in the Yangtse Valley. A complete picture gallery (Hankow, 1891), original Chinese text published in Changsha, 1891 (The National Archives: EXT 5/13)

Slicing it up: The Royal Cake or The Western Empires sharing China between them, from Le Petit Journal, 16 January 1898 (Private Collection / Archives Charmet / The Bridgeman Art Library)

Boxers on the march, photographer unknown, 1900 (Library of Congress: LOT 12070-5)

Britains Chinese soldiers: drummer boy, First Chinese (Weihaiwei) Regiment, c. 19012 (Ruxton Collection)

defeating foreign troops at Tianjin, artists unknown, 1900 ( All Rights Reserved, The British Library Board)

Aftermath of battle: British officers on a Chinese destroyer they have just seized at Dagu, 17 June 1900 (Carrall Collection)

Sitting pretty in Nanjing: Customs officers R. F. C. Hedgeland and P. P. P. M. Kremer, c. 18991903 (Hedgeland Collection, School of Oriental & African Studies)

Defenders of the Laozha police station, Mixed Court riot, Shanghai, 18 December 1905 (courtesy of Michael Towers)

China Inland missionaries at play, c. 1900 (Sinton Collection)

Two faces of China, old and new, caught on autochromes by Stphane Passet for Albert Kahn: young man at Confucius Temple, Qufu, 14 June 1913 (courtesy of Muse Albert-Kahn)

New Army soldier, Shenyang, 1912 (courtesy of Muse Albert-Kahn)

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