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Trade and diplomacy on the China coast: the opening of treaty ports, 1842-1854

Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991.

Year: 1964, c1953.

Publisher: Harvard University Press.

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Frontmatter

VOLUME ONE PART I CHINA'S UNPREPAREDNESS FOR WESTERN CONTACT

1. THE PROBLEM OF CHINA'S RESPONSE TO THE WEST

2. TRIBUTE AND THE GROWTH OF TRADE

3. CH'ING POLICY AND THE CANTON SYSTEM

PART II THE FIRST BRITISH TREATY SETTLEMENT 1842-43

4. OPIUM AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE CANTON SYSTEM

5. THE OPIUM WAR, 1840-42

6. MANCHU DIPLOMACY AND THE TREATY OF NANKING, 1842

7. CH'I-YING'S APPEASEMENT POLICY

8. THE TREATY SETTLEMENT OF 1843

9. THE OPIUM SETTLEMENT OF 1843

PART III THE APPLICATION OF THE TREATIES 1843-45

10. THE TREATY PORTS AND THE BRITISH CONSULS

11. THE CHINESE RESPONSE TO WESTERN CONTACT

12. PROBLEMS IN THE APPLICATION OF THE TREATIES AT THE NEW PORTS

13. THE OPIUM SETTLEMENT IN PRACTICE

14. THE REORGANIZATION OF THE CANTON SYSTEM

PART IV THE PROGRESSIVE BREAKDOWN OF THE TREATY SYSTEM 1845-51

15. ANGLO-CHINESE FRICTION

16. GROWTH AND TAXATION OF THE LEGAL TRADE

17. THE FOREIGN INVASION OF THE COASTING TRADE

18. NINGPO: PIRACY AND CONVOY

19. THE EVASION OF LEGAL DUTIES

PART V THE CREATION OF THE FOREIGN INSPECTORATE OF CUSTOMS AT SHANGHAI 1850-54

20. PALMERSTON ABANDONS THE TREATY TARIFF 1850-51

21. WU CHIEN-CHANG AND THE "CANTONIZATION" OF SHANGHAI 1852-53

22. RUTHERFORD ALCOCK AND THE PROVISIONAL SYSTEM 1853-54

23. SIR JOHN BOWRING AND THE FOREIGN INSPECTORATE 1854

24. CONCLUSION: THE TREATIES SUCCEED THE TRIBUTE SYSTEM

INDEX

VOLUME TWO

REFERENCE NOTES

APPENDIX A: BRITISH PERSONNEL IN CHINA

APPENDIX B: DATA ON THE CH'ING CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION AFTER THE TREATIES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

GLOSSARY OF CHINESE NAMES AND TERMS

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Trade and diplomacy on the China coast : the opening of treaty ports, 1842-1854 by John King Fairbank.

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Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991

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Trade and diplomacy on the China coast : the opening of treaty ports, 1842-1854 by John King Fairbank.
Fairbank, John King, 1907-1991
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1964, c1953.

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• Customs administration -- China
• Harbors -- China
• China -- Commerce -- History
• China -- Foreign relations -- To 1912

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