China and the Modern World: Regional China and the West, 1759-1972 (via Gale Scholar Accelerate Program)

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Regional China and the West comprises general correspondence and registers of land, deeds, marriages, and deaths generated by the British legation in Beijing and British consulates based in more than 20 Chinese treaty ports; private and semi-official correspondence of two top British diplomats in China (Sir Henry Pottinger and Sir John N. Jordan), and those of Lord Edmund Hammond (Permanent Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) with British representatives in East Asia. On top of these is a set of records and photographs featuring the history of the British concession in Tianjin.


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