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BEING AN ACCOUNT FOR THE GENERAL READER OF AN
ANCIENT EMPIRE AND PEOPLE

BY

DEMETRIUS CHARLES BOULGER

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Author of the "History of China England and Russia in

Central Asia" &c &c

LONDON

WH ALLEN & CO LIMITED

13 WATERLOO PLACE SW

Publishers to the India Office

1893

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I DEDICATE THIS SHORT

HISTORY

OF CHINA

TO

SIR HALLIDAY MACARTNEY, K.C.M.G.,

AS A SLIGHT TRIBUTE OF PERSONAL RESPECT AND ADMIRATION FOR ONE WHO HAS
MAINTAINED THE RIGHT OF CHINA TO BE TREATED BY THE GOVERNMENTS
OF EUROPE WITH THE DIGNITY AND CONSIDERATION THAT BECOME A

GREAT EMPIRE.

IF TO LORD MACARTNEY WE OWE THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ATTEMPT TO OBTAIN
AUDIENCE OF THE EMPEROR OF CHINA ON THE SAME CONDITIONS AS THOSE
ON WHICH FOREIGN AMBASSADORS ARE RECEIVED AT EUROPEAN COURTS, TO

SIR HALLIDAY MACARTNEY,

A SCION OF THE SAME FAMILY,

CHINA

OWES MUCH OF THE SUCCESS THAT HAS ATTENDED HER DIPLOMACY IN

FOREIGN COUNTRIES.

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