本书论述的是中英关系的一个十分重要的时期。1894—1895年中日甲午战争后，清王朝统治下的中国成了帝国主义列强的瓜分对象，开始沦为一个半殖民地性质的国家。在侵略者一方，随着美、日、德等新兴列强在远东的崛起，盛极一时的“日不落帝国”英国在华利益面临严峻的挑战。为应对这一新形势的变化，英国的索尔兹伯里第三届内阁不得不调整其对华政策，由视中国为英国的禁脔转而参与列强在华势力范围的划分，并开始放弃其传统的“光荣孤立”政策，试图寻找盟友。1902年，英日两国缔结“英日同盟”，此举标志着英国对外政策与以往相比发生了一次重大历史转折。
This book deals with a very important period in Sino-British relations. After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, China under the Qing Dynasty became the target of the imperialist powers and began to become a semi-colonial country. On the side of the aggressor, with the rise of emerging powers such as the United States, Japan, and Germany in the Far East, Britain's interests in China, the flourishing "empire of the sun never sets", are facing severe challenges. In response to this new situation, the third cabinet of Salisbury in the United Kingdom had to adjust its China policy, from viewing China as a forbidden for Britain to participating in the division of spheres of influence among the great powers in China, and began to abandon its traditional policy of "glorious isolation" and try to find allies. In 1902, Britain and Japan concluded the "Anglo-Japanese Alliance", which marked a major historical turning point in British foreign policy.（AI翻译）
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