Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59 Paperback / softback
by Laurence Oliphant
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History series
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In 1857 Laurence Oliphant (1829–88), lawyer, journalist, diplomat and sometime spy, later Liberal MP, satirical novelist, and, for a time, adherent of the religious mystic Thomas Harris, became private secretary to Lord Elgin (1811–63), accompanying him to China, and thence to Japan, on a mission to protect and extend British trading interests in the region.
Oliphant's 1859 account of the trip was published in two volumes.
Volume 2 deals with the negotiation of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Yedo, the legalisation of the Chinese opium trade and combat with Chinese insurgents at Nankin.
The work is a mixture of travel narrative - Oliphant had previously written about his travels in Nepal and in the Crimea (also reissued in this series) - and political analysis.
It provides both an informative account of the war from a privileged vantage point and a window upon Oliphant's own colourful career.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:554 pages, 15 Plates, color; 3 Maps; 30 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/04/2012
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- ISBN:9781108045834
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:554 pages, 15 Plates, color; 3 Maps; 30 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:26/04/2012
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108045834