The International Relations of the Chinese Empire, Volum 2

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Longmans, Green, and Company, 1918
 

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Pàgina 456 - British merchant-vessel be concerned in smuggling, the goods, whatever their value or nature, shall be subject to confiscation by the Chinese authorities, and the ship may be prohibited from trading further and sent away, as soon as her accounts shall have been adjusted and paid.
Pàgina 22 - Britain, &c., will appoint superintendents, or consular officers, to reside at each of the above-named cities or towns, to be the medium of communication between the Chinese authorities and the said merchants, and to see that the just duties and other dues of the Chinese Government, as hereafter provided for, are duly discharged by her Britannic Majesty's subjects.
Pàgina 31 - The said high officer will be at liberty, of his own choice, and independently of the suggestion or nomination of any British authority, to select any British subject he may see fit to aid him in the administration of the Customs revenue ; in the prevention of smuggling ; in the definition of port boundaries.; or in discharging the duties of harbour-master; also in the distribution of lights, buoys, beacons, and the like, the maintenance of which shall be provided for out of the tonnage dues.
Pàgina 123 - It is my duty to remind you that the Chinese government has never formally abandoned its rights over its own subjects; nor has her Majesty's government ever claimed or expressed any desire to exercise a protectorate over them.
Pàgina 298 - With reference to the area within which, according to the treaties in force, likin ought not to be collected on foreign, goods at the open ports, Sir Thomas Wade agrees to move his Government to allow the ground rented by foreigners (the so-called Concessions) at the different ports, to be regarded as the area of exemption from likin...
Pàgina 190 - I may be permitted to add that when the oldest nation in the world, containing one-third of the human race, seeks, for the first time, to come into relations with the west, and requests the youngest nation, through its representative, to act as the medium of such change-, the mission is one not to be solicited or rejected.
Pàgina 198 - President adheres to the policy adopted in 1868, when the articles additional to the treaty of 1858 (commonly known as the Burlingame treaty) were concluded. You will therefore so shape your private as well as your official conversation as to demonstrate to Prince Kung the sincerity of the United States in its wishes for the maintenance of the authority of the central government and for the peaceful spread of its influence. You will make clear to the government to which you...
Pàgina 207 - ... the outrageous craft and malignity of the Chinese exceeds even that of the foreigners ? " Foregn nations were strong and China weak because the former had realised that " a government is strong if it provides food for the people and warlike equipment for its troops, and if it has gained the confidence of the people.
Pàgina 123 - I do not understand what interest Her Majesty's Government has in lending itself to a system which is unjustifiable in principle, which would be attended with endless embarrassment and responsibility, and which the Chinese Government would never submit to willingly. Great Britain has no interest except in providing a secure place for British trading establishments ; and whatever inconveniences may arise from the conversion of the settlement into a Chinese town, I do not think...
Pàgina 38 - ambitious of obtaining the position of middle-man between China and the foreign powers, because I thought I saw a way of solving the problem of placing pacific relations with China upon a sure footing. . . . My position was that of a foreigner engaged by the Chinese government to perform certain work for i Hue Book, China, No.

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