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NARRATIVE OF THE EARL OF ELGIN'S MISSION TO CHINA AND JAPAN, IN THE YEARS 1857, '58, '59
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| By: |
Laurence Oliphant |
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Paperback |
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| ISBN 10: |
1108045839 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781108045834 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE LIBRARY COLLECTION |
| Pub. date: |
31 March, 2012 |
| Series: |
Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History |
| Pages: |
554 |
| Description: |
An 1859 account, by his private secretary, of Elgin's diplomatic mission to Japan and China, and trading concessions he established. |
| Synopsis: |
In 1857 Laurence Oliphant (1829-88), lawyer, journalist, diplomat and sometime spy, later Liberal MP, satirical novelist, and, for a time, adherent of the religious mystic Thomas Harris, became private secretary to Lord Elgin (1811-63), accompanying him to China, and thence to Japan, on a mission to protect and extend British trading interests in the region. Oliphant's 1859 account of the trip was published in two volumes. Volume 2 deals with the negotiation of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Yedo, the legalisation of the Chinese opium trade and combat with Chinese insurgents at Nankin. The work is a mixture of travel narrative - Oliphant had previously written about his travels in Nepal and in the Crimea (also reissued in this series) - and political analysis. It provides both an informative account of the war from a privileged vantage point and a window upon Oliphant's own colourful career. |
| Illustrations: |
30 b/w illus. 15 colour illus. 3 maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |