A Short History of ChinaW H Allen & Company, 1893 - 436 pàgines |
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Pàgina 4
... seemed an interminable old age , marked by weakness and vice , the Chow dynasty came to an end in the person of Nan Wang , who , although he reigned for nearly sixty years , was deposed in ignominious fashion by one of his great vassals ...
... seemed an interminable old age , marked by weakness and vice , the Chow dynasty came to an end in the person of Nan Wang , who , although he reigned for nearly sixty years , was deposed in ignominious fashion by one of his great vassals ...
Pàgina 6
... seemed uncertain , he found that his bitterest opponents were men of letters , and that the literary class as a body was hostile to his interests and person . Instead of ignoring this opposition or seeking to overcome it by the same ...
... seemed uncertain , he found that his bitterest opponents were men of letters , and that the literary class as a body was hostile to his interests and person . Instead of ignoring this opposition or seeking to overcome it by the same ...
Pàgina 11
... seemed in- evitable , when recourse was had to a stratagem . The most beautiful Chinese maiden was sent as a present to propitiate the conqueror , and Meha , either mollified by the compliment , or deeming that nothing was to be gained ...
... seemed in- evitable , when recourse was had to a stratagem . The most beautiful Chinese maiden was sent as a present to propitiate the conqueror , and Meha , either mollified by the compliment , or deeming that nothing was to be gained ...
Pàgina 24
... seemed certain , victory was denied him , and the Wei forces suffered severely during their retreat to their own territory . This check to his triumphant career injured his reputation and encouraged his enemies . A short time after this ...
... seemed certain , victory was denied him , and the Wei forces suffered severely during their retreat to their own territory . This check to his triumphant career injured his reputation and encouraged his enemies . A short time after this ...
Pàgina 27
... seemed to him to be the prosecution of what might be called a national war against those enemies beyond the northern frontier , who were always troublesome , and who had occasionally founded governments within the limits of China like ...
... seemed to him to be the prosecution of what might be called a national war against those enemies beyond the northern frontier , who were always troublesome , and who had occasionally founded governments within the limits of China like ...
Altres edicions - Mostra-ho tot
A Short History of China: An Account for the General Reader of an Ancient ... Demetrius Charles de Kavanagh Boulger Visualització completa - 1900 |
A Short History of China: An Account for the General Reader of an Ancient ... Demetrius Charles Boulger Visualització completa - 1900 |
A Short History of China: Being an Account for the General Reader of an ... Demetrius Charles Boulger Visualització completa - 1893 |
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ARTICLE attack became British Burgevine campaign Canton Canton river capital capture carried chief Chinese army Chinese authorities Chinese government Ching Chung Wang command Commissioner conquest Consul Corea death declared defence doubt duty dynasty Emperor of China Empire enemy English Europeans execution favour force foreign fortune frontier Galdan garrison Genghis honour hostility Imperial Imperialists Kanghi Kashgar Kashgaria Keen Lung Khan Khokand Kins Kublai Leaoutung Lord Elgin Mahomedan Major Gordon Manchu mandarins ment merchants military Ming ministers Mongols Nankin Noorhachu officers opium palace peace Pekin Plenipotentiary ports position possession Prince Kung province rebels reign river ruler Russian seemed sent Shanghai siege Sir Thomas Wade Soochow sovereign subjects succeeded success Sung surrender Szchuen Taepings Taitsong Taoukwang Tartar throne Tibet Tientsin tion town trade Treaty Treaty of Tientsin troops Viceroy victory Vouti Wang Khan Wang Mang Wou Sankwei Yunnan
Passatges populars
Pàgina 306 - When beggars die there are no comets seen ; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes.
Pàgina 381 - ... have resolved to conclude a Treaty for that purpose, and have therefore named as their Plenipotentiaries, that is to say : Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, Sir Henry Pottinger, Bart., a Major-General in the employ of the East India Company, &c. ; And His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of China...
Pàgina 281 - China had recovered from her internal confusion, there was nothing to be gained and much to be lost by protracted resistance to the peoples of the West.
Pàgina 407 - It is farther understood that so long as the laws of the two countries differ from each other, there can be but one principle to guide judicial proceedings in mixed cases in China, namely, that the case is tried by the official of the defendant's nationality ; the official of the plaintiff's nationality merely attending to watch the proceedings in the interests of justice. If the officer so attending be dissatisfied with the proceedings, it will be in his power to protest against them in detail....
Pàgina 381 - His Majesty the Emperor of China agrees, that British subjects, with their families and establishments, shall be allowed to reside, for the purpose of carrying on their mercantile pursuits, without molestation or restraint...
Pàgina 391 - HER MAJESTY the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and His Majesty the Emperor of China, being desirous...
Pàgina 407 - 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 383 - Emperor further engages, that when British Merchandise shall have once paid at any of the said Ports the regulated Customs and Dues agreeable to the Tariff, to be hereafter fixed, such Merchandise may be conveyed by Chinese Merchants, to any Province or City in the interior of the Empire of China on paying a further amount as Transit Duties which shall not exceed per cent, on the tariff value of such goods.
Pàgina 391 - Who, after having communicated to each other their respective full powers, and found them to be in good and due form, have agreed upon and concluded the following Articles : — ARTICLE I.
Pàgina 393 - ... under passports which will be issued by their Consuls, and countersigned by the local authorities. These passports, if demanded, must be produced for examination in the localities passed through.