TY - BOOK AU - Fairbank,John King AU - Coolidge,Martha Henderson AU - Smith,Richard J. TI - H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and historian of China SN - 0813171040 AV - HJ7071.A3 M674 1995eb U1 - 951/.035/092B 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Lexington PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - Morse, Hosea Ballou, KW - Morse, Hosea Ballou. KW - Customs administration KW - China KW - Officials and employees KW - Biography KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY KW - Historical KW - bisacsh KW - HISTORY KW - fast KW - Diplomatic relations KW - Biografie KW - gnd KW - Geschichtsschreibung KW - Historici KW - gtt KW - Geschichte 1908-1927 KW - swd KW - Foreign relations KW - 1644-1912 KW - USA KW - Electronic books KW - Biographies KW - Biografie�en (vorm) N1 - Maps on lining paper; Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-299) and index; Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1. Origins and Education, 1855-1874; 2. Entering China's Service, 1874-1877; 3. Adventures in North China, 1877-1879; 4. Rising in the Service, 1879-1885; 5. Advising the China Merchants' Company, 1885-1887; 6. Shanghai and Pakhoi, 1887-1892; 7. Tamsui, 1892-1895; Illustrations; 8. Taiwan in the Sino-Japanese War, 1894-1895; 9. Lungchow and Pakhoi, 1896-1899; 10. Yochow, 1899-1900; 11. Long Leave and Resumption of Duty, 1900-1903; 12. Heading the Statistical Department, 1904-1908; 13. Morse's Second Career, 1909-1934; 14. Morse as HistorianAfterword; Appendix A: Summary of H.B. Morse's Customs Career; Appendix B: Obituary of Morse; Notes; Bibliographic Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z N2 - 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 interpretive histories, most notably his three-volume magnum opus, The International Relations of the UR - https://libproxy.firstcity.edu.my:8443/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=52648 ER -