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A life of Sir Harry Parkes : British Minister to Japan, China and Korea, 1865-1885
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Harry Parkes was at the heart of Britain's relations with the Far East from fourteen, to his death at fifty-seven. In his day, he was seen as both a hero and a monster and is still bitterly resente...
Harry Parkes was at the heart of Britain's relations with the Far East from fourteen, to his death at fifty-seven. In his day, he was seen as both a hero and a monster and is still bitterly resented in China for his part in the country's humiliations at Western hands, but largely esteemed in Japan for helping it to industrialise.
Details
- Creator
- by Robert Morton
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Folkestone : Renaissance Books, 2021
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xvii, 321 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
- ISBNs
- 9781912961177, 9781912961160, 1912961164, 1912961172
- OCLC
- on1231607768, on1322124458
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- List of Illustrations -- 1 ‘Watch Therefore For Ye Knows Not’ -- 2 ‘A Sharp Intelligent Lad’ -- 3 ‘Not Sufficient to Satisfy Me’ -- 4 ‘Here I am Now Perfectly Alone’ -- 5 ‘A Continuous Settled Life Has No Charms for Me’ -- 6 ‘I Saw a Good Deal’ -- 7 ‘I Distinctly Declined to Accede’ -- 8 ‘Hasty Love-making’ -- 9 ‘It Is the Cause of the West against the East’ -- 10 ‘Never Sparing Himself in Any Way’ -- 11 ‘The Executioner Stood by with Uplifted Sword’ -- 12 ‘I Do Not at All Like Being in a Great Man’s Train’ -- 13 Sir Harry Parkes -- 14 ‘The Drudgery of the Service’ -- 15 ‘The Appointment is Particularly Gratifying to Me’ -- 16 ‘The Most Superior Japanese’ -- 17 The Meiji Restoration -- 18 ‘We of Course Hope for Improvement’ -- 19 ‘This is Becoming Civilised with a Vengeance’ -- 20 ‘I Arrived Too Late’ -- 21 ‘I Am Deeply Sensible of the Services You have Rendered’ -- 22 ‘The Last Semi-civilised State’ -- 23 ‘I Can Find No Rest’ -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- NOTES -- Index -- The Author
Subjects
- Diplomats -- Great Britain -- Biography.
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Japan.
- Japan -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- China.
- China -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Korea.
- Korea -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.
- Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1837-1901.
- Parkes, Harry, Sir, 1828-1885.