Beschreibung
William Nelson Lovatt in Late Qing China: War, Maritime Customs, and Treaty Ports,1860-1904looks at the late Qing dynasty through the eyes of a British-American who spent most of his adult life in China in the late nineteenth century, fighting in four wars, serving in its maritime customs service, and living in eleven different treaty ports. It is based on the newly-discovered journals, correspondence, and photographs of William Nelson Lovatt (1838-1904), who first arrived in China in 1860 as a sergeant in the British army to fight in the Second Opium War, and who then proceeded to fight against the Taiping in Shanghai, against the Nian in Tianjin, and finally against the Japanese in Taiwan, providing an inside look at those four conflicts. Joining the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service in 1863 under Inspector-General Sir Robert Hart, Lovatt provides a rare insider look at the operation of Hart and the Maritime Customs Service for during the four decades he served. Because he was based in treaty ports, he also provides a new look at those enclaves, their institutions, and their inhabitants Chinese, missionaries, and fellow customs officials. Fluent in Chinese, his frequent travels outside the treaty ports gave him rare access to Chinese society available to few others. This volume opens up a new window on China during the final decades of the Qing dynasty.
Autorenportrait
Wayne Patterson is professor of modern East Asian history at St. Norbert College in Wisconsin.
Inhalt
Chapter One: Entering China: The Siege of Beijing, 1860
Chapter Two: Fighting the Taiping: Shanghai, 1860-1862
Chapter Three: Entering the Customs Service: Hankou and Zhenjiang, 1863-1865
Chapter Four: Training the Cavalry and Taming the Nian
Chapter Five: Minnesota, Jiujiang and Taiwan, 1869-1877
Chapter Six: Wuhu, 1877-1878
Chapter Seven: Return to Hankou, 1878-1881
Chapter Eight: Resignation: Tianjin, 1881-1883
Chapter Nine: Commissioner in Korea: 1883-1888
Chapter Ten: Return to China on Demotion: Fuzhou, 1888-1889
Chapter Eleven: Hoping for a Promotion: Jiujiang, 1889-1890
Chapter Twelve: Opening a New Customs Station: Chongqing, 1890-94
Chapter Thirteen: The Final Decade: Yichang, Guangzhou, Jiujiang, and Hankou, 1894-1904
Chapter Fourteen: Epilogue: 1904-1914
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