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To what extent did the Western powers bring China under their domination without annexation?

  • UPSC 2000
  • Imperialism and Colonialism

China is the paradigm case of what historians of empire call "informal empire" — a state that retained the outward forms of sovereignty, its own emperor, flag, and administration, while the substance of economic and political control passed overwhelmingly into foreign hands.

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  • The Legal Architecture of Informal Control
  • Territorial Control Short of Annexation
  • The Logic and the Limits of "Domination Without Annexation"

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