H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China by Fairbank, John King

H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780813160023)

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H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China by Fairbank, John King

H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China

$30.00
H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China by Fairbank, John King

H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China

$30.00
Format: Paperback
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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

Author: John King Fairbank, Martha Henderson Coolidge, Richard J. Smith
ISBN-10: 0813160022
ISBN-13: 9780813160023
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Language: English
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 328
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.76d
By John King Fairbank
By John King Fairbank
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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.

Martha Henderson Coolidge is associate in research at the Fairbank Center at Harvard University.

Richard J. Smith is professor of history and director of Asian Studies at Rice University.

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