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H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China
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 in
Book Details
- Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
- Publish Date: Jul 15th, 2014
- Pages: 328
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 9.00in - 6.00in - 0.76in - 1.11lb
- EAN: 9780813160023
- Categories: • Historical• Asia - China• Political
About the Author
Fairbank, John King: - John King Fairbank (1907-1991) was Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History at Harvard University and founder/director of Harvard's East Asian Research Center, now the John King Fairbank Center for East Asian Research.
Coolidge, Martha Henderson: - Martha Henderson Coolidge is associate in research at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University.
Smith, Richard J.: - Richard J. Smith is professor of history and director of Asian Studies at Rice University.
Praise for this book
"The last fresh work we will have of John King Fairbank (1907-1991), and it is a fascinating coda to his remarkable career." -- American Historical Review
"A useful survey of the workings of the late nineteenth-century Maritime Customs service." -- Bibliographie
"With this biography coming as a labor of love and his last work, the reader can almost feel Fairbank closing the circle by once again entering into a dialogue with his old mentor." -- Journal of Asian Studies
"Surprisingly pleasant to read." -- Royal Asiatic Society