Yeh Ming-Ch''en - Viceroy of Liang Kuang 1852-8

The western reader is here presented with a biography of a major figure on the Chinese side in the crucial period of China's political contact with the western world, which describes a man of his own time and country, with his own background of education, endeavour and achievement and not merely a figure symbolic of Chinese obstruction of British purposes as he was seen from London or Hong Kong. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Yeh's background and his time; Part II. The administrator; Part III. The military organiser; Part IV. The paymaster general; Part V. The imperial commissioner for foreign affairs; Part VI. Yeh's last days; Notes; Glossary; Bibliographical essay; Bibliography; Index.

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• Authors: J. Y. Wong, J. Y. (University of Sydney) Wong
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780521103749
• ISBN: 978-0-521-10374-9
• No. of pages: 284
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Chinese H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous