Rare Books

The Burlingame mission : a political disclosure, supported by official documents, mostly unpublished. To which are added: various papers and discourses on the claim of the Emperor of China to universal supremacy; the true nature of actual diplomatic relations between China and western powers; the position and influence in China of Robert Hart, Esq., as confidential adviser of the Tsung-Li Yamen; the Hart-Alcock Convention; the dispersion of the Lay-Osborn flotilla; the "New Chinese University"; the policy of the United States in China; the new China policy of England; the western policy, and the diplomacy, of the Chinese government; the massacre of Tientsin; the Chung-'Ho Mission; the audience question; and the coming war