H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China

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Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retireme...

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Autor principal: Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991
Otros Autores: Smith, Richard J., Coolidge, Martha Henderson
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Morse, Hosea Ballou, > 1855-1934.
Diplomatic relations.
Customs administration > Officials and employees.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Douanes > Chine > Fonctionnaires > Biographies.
Customs administration > China > Officials and employees > Biography.
China.
Chine > Relations exterieures > 1644-1912.
China > Foreign relations > 1644-1912.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China's foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch'ing dynasty's foreign affairs several seminal interpretive histories, most notably his three-volume magnum opus, The International Relations of the.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (328 pages).
ISBN:9780813161808

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