摘要
自1842年第一次鸦片战争中国失败开始,英国以及其他帝国强权开始了对中国版图的掠夺,其中具有代表性的是搞租借地;1898年英国决策者无明确理由占领威海卫,其后40年拒绝归还的事例,表明帝国非理性现象在20世纪早期的英国政府内部非常流行;明知是无重大价值的地区又非要占领,这种非理性动机成为大多数帝国确立其政治、经济政策的刺激力量。
Since China＇s defeat in the First Opium War in !842, British and other European powers came to exercise forcible dominion in China. Among the examples of imperialist predation on Chinese territory were the leased territories. The case of Weihai, which British policymakers acquired for no clear reason in 1898 and then refused to turn it over to China for four decades, suggests that the irration-ality was widespread in the British government during the early twentieth century. The fact that they knew clearly that the territory had not great value but still occupied it became the provoking drive to propel most imperial nations to make their political and economic policy accordingly.
出处
《山东大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》
北大核心
2005年第4期14-23,共10页
Journal of Shandong University(Philosophy and Social Sciences)
