CHAPTER 1. Prologue: The Meeting of the Western and Eastern Families of Nations

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Foreword vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. CONTENTS xiii
5. CHAPTER 1. Prologue: The Meeting of the Western and Eastern Families of Nations 1
6. PART I. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF FOREIGN LEGATIONS IN CHINA 1858–1861
7. CHAPTER 2. The Resident Minister Issue: The Diplomatic Prelude 21
8. CHAPTER 3. The Tientsin Negotiations 46
9. CHAPTER 4. The Shanghai Tariff Conference 71
10. CHAPTER 5. Personality and Diplomacy: A Study in Leadership 83
11. CHAPTER 6. The Resident Minister Issue after Taku 92
12. CHAPTER 7. The Ideological Issue: Diplomatic Representation vs. T’i-chih 109
13. PART II. THE INTRODUCTION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW 1862–1874
14. CHAPTER 8. The Translation of International Law into Chinese 121
15. CHAPTER 9. Success and Failure: China's Limited Application of International Law 132
16. PART III. THE ESTABLISHMENT OF PERMANENT CHINESE LEGATIONS ABROAD
17. CHAPTER 10. Early Approaches to the Problem 149
18. CHAPTER 11. The Envoy Question as a National Issue, 1867-1876 163
19. CHAPTER 12. Legations Abroad as Permanent Institutions 180
20. CHAPTER 13. Epilogue: The Imperial Chinese Tradition in the Modern World 199
21. APPENDIXES
22. Appendix A: Major Foreign Diplomatic Representatives in China during the Nineteenth Century 212
23. Appendix Β : Chinese Diplomatic Representatives in Major Foreign Countries during the Nineteenth Century 216
24. Appendix C: Funds Supplied to Chinese Legations in Major Foreign Countries 218
25. Appendix D: Expenditures of Chinese Legations in Major Foreign Countries 219
26. NOTES. INDEX
27. ABBREVIATIONS USED IN THE NOTES 222
28. NOTES 223
29. Index 249
30. REFERENCE MATTER
31. BIBLIOGRAPHY i
32. GLOSSARY xxxiii
33. Backmatter 295