China Charts the World: Hsu Chi-yü and His Geography of 1848Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- A Scholar-Official from Shansi -- The “Intractable Barbarians” -- In Touch with a New World -- A Victim of Conservatism -- The Ying-Huan Chih-Lueh -- Governor Hsu's Image of the World -- Danger in China's Maritime Sphere -- Threatened on the Inner Asian Frontier -- The “Barbarian” Base in Europe -- Despair in Africa, Hope in America -- Return to China's Heartland -- Conclusion -- Works Cited in the Ying-Huan Chih-Lueh: Titles, Authors, and Location in the 1848 Edition -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Glossary -- Index -- Harvard East Asian Monographs. |
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... China's zone , though worrisome , was hardly a unique threat from such a vantage point . Were not the Japanese ... China in the early decades of the nineteenth cen- tury , China thus seemed oblivious to the need for a thorough ...
... China's zone , though worrisome , was hardly a unique threat from such a vantage point . Were not the Japanese ... China in the early decades of the nineteenth cen- tury , China thus seemed oblivious to the need for a thorough ...
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... China , of Japanese raids on the coast of China , of Chinese " traitors " who collaborated with the Japanese , of conflict between China and Japan in Korea . Hsu added his own conclusions to Ku's information ; he cited the Mon- gols ...
... China , of Japanese raids on the coast of China , of Chinese " traitors " who collaborated with the Japanese , of conflict between China and Japan in Korea . Hsu added his own conclusions to Ku's information ; he cited the Mon- gols ...
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... China , or even the position of Westerners - did not constitute a radical new view of that part of the world . This could all be found in works by other Chinese authors . However , Hsu's stress on the importance of trade as one of the ...
... China , or even the position of Westerners - did not constitute a radical new view of that part of the world . This could all be found in works by other Chinese authors . However , Hsu's stress on the importance of trade as one of the ...
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A SCHOLAROFFICIAL FROM SHANSI | 7 |
THE INTRACTABLE BARBARIANS | 17 |
IN TOUCH WITH A NEW WORLD | 28 |
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