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  3. Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59
    Volume 2
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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 October 2013
    26 April 2012
    ISBN:
    9781139178778
    9781108045834
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139178778
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    Dimensions:
    (216 x 140 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.7kg, 554 Pages
    • Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, British History after 1450, Asian Studies, History, South-East Asian History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History
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    Subjects:
    East Asian History, Area Studies, British History after 1450, Asian Studies, History, South-East Asian History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History
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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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