PREFACE.
CONTENTS OF THE FIRST VOLUME. CHAP. PAGE I. THE ARMY SURGEON
ILLUSTRATIONS TO THE FIRST VOLUME. PAGE MR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK AT
CHAPTER I. THE ARMY SURGEON. I. YOUTH.
CHAPTER II. SENT TO CHINA.
CHAPTER III. ANTECEDENTS OF THE WAR. I. THE OPIUM TRADE.
CHAPTER IV. THE FIRST CHINA WAR, 1839-1842.
CHAPTER V. THE TREATY OF 1842.
CHAPTER VI. THE FRUITS OF THE WAR AND PROSPECTS OF PEACE.
CHAPTER VII. THE NEW INTERCOURSE: CANTON, 1842-1847.
CHAPTER VIII. THE NEW TREATY PORTS FOOCHOW, AMOY, NINGPO.
CHAPTER IX. SHANGHAI.
CHAPTER X. CONSUL ALCOCK'S VIEWS ON GENERAL POLICY.
CHAPTER XI. TRADE UNDER THE TREATY OF NANKING.
CHAPTER XII . SHIPPING.
CHAPTER XIII. THE TRADERS. I. FOREIGN.
CHAPTER XIV. HONGKONG.
CHAPTER XV. MACAO.
CHAPTER XVI. PIRACY.
CHAPTER XVII. THE ARROW WAR, 1856-1860.
CHAPTER XVIII. INTERCOURSE UNDER THE TREATIES OF 1858 AND 1860. I. THE DIPLOMATIC OVERTURE.
APPENDIX I. NOTE ON OUR PRESENT POSITION AND THE STATE OF OUR
APPENDIX II. CONFIDENTIAL DESPATCH BY CONSUL ALCOCK TO SIR GEORGE BONHAM, JANUARY 13, 1852.
APPENDIX III. CONFIDENTIAL DESPATCH TO SIR GEORGE BONHAM, DATED JUNE 17, 1852. (EXTRACT.)
APPENDIX IV. ACCOUNT OF THE SALT TRADE ANNEXED TO MR PARKES'
FOOTNOTES:
Transcriber's Note:
Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation in the original document have been preserved.
In the caption to the illustration facing page 370, KOLENGSOO should possibly be KULANGSU.
THE ENGLISHMAN IN CHINA
Chap. xxiii.: Tsze-kung asked, saying, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
Mr Alcock, at the age of 34.
from a drawing by L. A. de Fabeck, 1843.
Walker & Cockerell ph. sc.
THE ENGLISHMAN IN CHINA
DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA
AS ILLUSTRATED IN
THE CAREER OF
SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, K.C.B., D.C.L.
MANY YEARS CONSUL AND MINISTER IN
CHINA AND JAPAN
BY
ALEXANDER MICHIE
AUTHOR OF
'THE SIBERIAN OVERLAND ROUTE,' 'MISSIONARIES
IN CHINA,' ETC.
VOL. I.
WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS
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