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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... resided in Canton as one of the three or four top officials of the province . He was the supreme judge of the province and now had the right to memorialize the throne directly . Above him , as governor general , was Ch'i Kung , Ch'i ...
... resided in Canton as one of the three or four top officials of the province . He was the supreme judge of the province and now had the right to memorialize the throne directly . Above him , as governor general , was Ch'i Kung , Ch'i ...
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... resided in the treaty ports under his supervision . 41 In his account of a visit to Foochow from December 1845 to January 1846 , George Smith of the Church Missionary Society noted that Hsu was " a man of liberal views , and remarkably ...
... resided in the treaty ports under his supervision . 41 In his account of a visit to Foochow from December 1845 to January 1846 , George Smith of the Church Missionary Society noted that Hsu was " a man of liberal views , and remarkably ...
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... resided in a buffer zone be- tween Russia and China . " After the collapse of the Yuan dynasty , " he said , " Russia established itself in the northwest . Its capital is on the Baltic Sea in Europe . It gradually seized land to the ...
... resided in a buffer zone be- tween Russia and China . " After the collapse of the Yuan dynasty , " he said , " Russia established itself in the northwest . Its capital is on the Baltic Sea in Europe . It gradually seized land to the ...
Contents
A SCHOLAROFFICIAL FROM SHANSI | 7 |
THE INTRACTABLE BARBARIANS | 17 |
IN TOUCH WITH A NEW WORLD | 28 |
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