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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... trade and banking , but also for their trade to the north with the Mongols and Russians . These shrewd merchants , some of whom learned pidgin Russian , brought a cosmopolitan veneer to provincial Shansi , as did the officials of the ...
... trade and banking , but also for their trade to the north with the Mongols and Russians . These shrewd merchants , some of whom learned pidgin Russian , brought a cosmopolitan veneer to provincial Shansi , as did the officials of the ...
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... trade should be used to control the British . " Cutting them off from trade is like taking [ a mother's ] breast away from an infant . ” 17 On the same day the emperor received the memorial he had requested from Liu concerning Hsu's ...
... trade should be used to control the British . " Cutting them off from trade is like taking [ a mother's ] breast away from an infant . ” 17 On the same day the emperor received the memorial he had requested from Liu concerning Hsu's ...
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... trade as one of the foundation stones of modern state power appears to have been the statement of a minority view against the idea that only agriculture was fundamental . Hsu found that European trade was a phenomenon that had begun to ...
... trade as one of the foundation stones of modern state power appears to have been the statement of a minority view against the idea that only agriculture was fundamental . Hsu found that European trade was a phenomenon that had begun to ...
Contents
A SCHOLAROFFICIAL FROM SHANSI | 7 |
THE INTRACTABLE BARBARIANS | 17 |
IN TOUCH WITH A NEW WORLD | 28 |
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