Old China Hands. and the Foreign Office / Nathan Albert Pelcovits.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pelcovits, Nathan Albert, author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [1948]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Presents a study of the opinions and attitudes on Anglo-Chinese relations held by British merchants engaged in the China trade, and of their relevance to the formation of British foreign policy toward China in the half century between the Treaty of Tientsin and the Treaty of Portsmouth.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Introduction: Folklore of the Treaty Ports

Part 1. End of the Rainbow

I. The Tientsin Treaty

II. Lord Clarendon and the Old China Hands

III. The Verdict of the Board of Trade

Part 2. The Interlude, 1872-1890

IV. The Period of Apathy

V. The Shadow of Foreign Competition

Part 3. The Revival

VI. Formation of the China Association

VII. The Politics of Economic Concessions, 1896-1897

VIII. The Struggle for a Yangtze Protectorate, 1898-1899

Part 4. End of an Era

IX. Old China Hands: Defeat of the Insurgents

X. Retrospect

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

0-231-88743-4

OCLC:

1100431219