Personal Narrative of Occurrences During Lord Elgin s Second Embassy - to China, 186

Klappentext This 1869 first-hand account illuminates British and Chinese diplomacy at the close of the Second Opium War. Zusammenfassung In 1860, Henry Brougham Loch (1827–1900) accompanied the eighth Earl of Elgin on a mission to China, the aim of which was to obtain ratification of the Treaty of Tientsin. His personal observations of events, first published in 1869, include an account of his brutal imprisonment by Chinese officials. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Circumstances that led to Lord Elgin's second embassy to China; 2. Lord Elgin's departure for China; 3. Landing at Peh-tang; 4. Steps taken to obtain information of enemy's position; 5. Description of the position of the northern and Taku forts; 6. Capture of Sinho; 7. Correspondence of Lord Elgin and the governor-general of Chih-li; 8. Capture of the north Taku forts; 9. Advance to Tien-tsin; 10. March towards Pekin; 11. My prison life; 12. Our prison life; 13. Proceedings of the allied armies; 14. Surrender of the bodies; 15. Yuen-ming-yuen; 16. Signature of convention.

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• Authors: Henry Brougham Loch
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2013
• EAN: 9781108061360
• ISBN: 978-1-108-06136-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection -; Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; China, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, Memoirs, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, TRAVEL / Europe / Great Britain, HISTORY / Asia / China, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Diplomacy, Asian History, Classic Travel Writing, TRAVEL / Asia / East / China, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs