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Tsait’ien, Emperor—Hwangti—of China ; born 1871 ; the son of Prince Ch’un, seventh brother of the Emperor Hien-Fêng ; succeeded to the throne by proclamation, at the death of Emperor T’ung-chi, January 22, 1875 ; he was married February 26, 1889.
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Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning China
1. Official Publications
Catalogue of the Chinese Collection at the London Fisheries Exhibition. Shanghai, 1883.
And the International Health Exhibition. London 1884.
Customs Gazette, Shanghai ; published quarterly.
Returns of Trade at the Treaty Ports in China. Part I. Abstracts of Trade and Customs Revenue Statistics. Part II. Statistics of each Port. Shanghai, published yearly.
Report on the Trade of Central and Southern China. Foreign Office Reports. Miscellaneous Series. No. 458. London, 1898.
Tariff Returns : a set of tables showing the bearing of the Chinese Customs Tariff of 1858 on the Trade of 1885. Shanghai, 1889. 4. 2 vols.
Opium : Historical Note, or the Poppy in China. 4. Shanghai, 1889.
Ichang to Chungking, 1890. Shanghai.
Decennial Reports, 1882 to 1891. Shanghai, 1893.
Medical Reports. Shanghai, published half-yearly.
Foreign Office Reports. Annual and Miscellaneous Series. London. [For Chinese Imperial Finance see Consul Jamieson’s Report, Miscellaneous Series, No. 415. London, 1897.]
Report by Mr. Arthur Nicolson, British Secretary of Legation, on the Opium Trade in China, dated Peking, Februarv 25, 1878, in ‘ Reports by H.M.’s Secretaries of Embassy and Legation.’ Part III. 1878. 8. London, 1878.
Report by Mr. H. E. Fulford on a Journey in Manchuria, China. No. 2. London, 1887.
Report by Mr. Bourne of a Journey in South-Western China. London, 1888.
Treaties between Great Britain and China, by Sir E. Hertslet. 2 vols. London. 1896.
Annual Statement of the Trade of the United Kingdom with Foreign Countries and British Possessions. Imp. 4. London.
2. Non-Official Publications
Anderson (John), Mandalay to Momein : a Narrative of the two Expeditions to Western China of 1868 and 1875 with Colonels E. B. Sladen and Horace Brown. 8. London, 1876.
Baber (E, Colborne), Travels and Researches in Western China ; in Supplementary Papers of the Royal Geographical Society. London, 1883.
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Bastian (Dr. A.), Die Völker des östlichen Asiens. 6 vols. 8. Jena, 1866-71
Bishop (Mrs. Isabella), A Journey in Western Szechuan. In Geographical Journal, vol. x., No. 1 (July, 1897). London.
Boulger (D. C.), History of China. 2nd edit. 2 vols. London, 1898.
Bower (H.), Diary of a Journey across Tibet. 8. London, 1894.
Brandt (M. von), Aus dem Lande des Zopfes. Leipzic, 1894. Ostasiatische Fragen, Leipzic, 1897.
China Review. Hong Kong. China Recorder. Shanghai.
Chirol (V.), The Far Eastern Question. 8. London, 1896.
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Golquhoun (A. R.), Across Chryse : from Canton to Mandalay. 2 vols. London, 1883.— China in Transformation. London, 1898.
Cordier (H.), Les Origines des deux établissements français, Changhaï et Ningpo. Paris, 1896.
Curzon (G. N.), Problems of the Far East. New. ed. 8. London. 1896.
David (Abbé A.), Journal de mon troisième voyage d’exploration dans l’empire chinois. 2 vols. 18. Paris, 1875.
Douglas (R. K.), China. London, 1887. Confucianism and Taouism. London, 1893. Society in China. 8. London, 1894. Li Hung Chang. London, 1895.
Drake (S. B.), Among the Dark-haired Race in the Flowery Land. London, 1897.
Dudgeon (Dr. J.), Historical Sketch of the Ecclesiastical, Political, and Commercial Relations of Russia with China. 8. Peking, 1872.
Edkins (J.), Religion in China. 3rd edit. 8. London, 1880.
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Gill (Captain), The River of Golden Sand. 2 vols. London, 1880.
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Graham (J. A.), on the Threshold of Three Cloud Lands. London, 1897.
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Gray (Ven. John Henry), China : a History of the Laws, Manners, and Customs of the People. 2 vols. 8. London, 1878.
Gundry (R. S.), China and her Neighbours. 8. London, 1895. China Past and Present. London, 1895.
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Hoste (A.), Three Years in Western China. New ed. London, 1897.
Huc (L’Abbé E. R.), L’empire chinois. 2 vols. 8. 4th ed. Paris, 1862.—Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China, 1884-86. Translated from the French. 2 vols. London, 1898.
James (H. E. M.), The Long White Mountain, or a Journey in Manchuria. London, 1888.
Journal of the China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society. Shanghai.
Journal of the Pekin Oriental Society. Pekin.
Keane (Prof. A. H.), Asia. Vol. I. New ed. London. 1896.
Kraute (A.), China in Decay. London, 1898.
Lane-Poole (S.), Life of Sir Harry Parkes, K.C.B. 2 vols. 8. London. 1894.
Lansdell (H.), Chinese Central Asia : a Ride to Little Tibet. 2 vols. London, 1893.
Legge (J.), Chinese Classics, with Translations, Prolegomena, &c. New ed. 7 vols. Oxford, 1893. In progress.
Little (A.), Through the Yangtse Gorges, or Trade and Travel in Western China. 3rd ed. London, 1898.
Loch (Hy. Brougham), A Personal Narrative of Occurrences during Lord Elgin’s Second Embassy to China in 1860.8. London, 1870.
MacGowan (J.), Pictures of Southern China. London, 1897. Historyof China. London, 1897. MacMahon (A. R.), Far Cathay and Farther India. 8. London. 1893.
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Martin (Dr.), A Cycle of Cathay. Edinburgh. 1896.
Marston (Annie W.), The Great Closed Land (Tibet). 8. London. 1894.
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Simon (E.), China : Religious, Political, and Social. London, 1887.
Sladen (Major E. B.), Official Narrative of the Expedition to explore the Trade Routes to China viâ Bhamo. 8. Calcutta, 1870.
Smith (A, H.), Chinese Characteristics. 2d. ed. 8. London, 1895.
Temple (Sir R.), Population Statistics of China, in Journal of the Statist. Soc., vol. 48, 1885, p. 1.
Vladimir, The China-Japanese War. London, 1895.
Waddell (L. A.), the Buddism of Tibet. 8. London, 1895.
Wellby (M. S.), Through Unknown Tibet. London, 1898.
Williams (Dr. S. Wells), The Middle Kingdom : a Survey of the Geography, Government, &c., of the Chinese Empire. New ed. 2 vols. London, 1883.—A History of China : Being the Historical Chapters from ‘The Middle Kingdom,’ with a Chapter on Recent Events by F. Wells Williams. London, 1897.
Williamson (Rev. A.), Journeys in North China, Manchuria, and Eastern Mongolia. With some Account of Corea. 2 vols. 8. London, 1870.
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Keltie, J.S. (1899). China. In: Keltie, J.S. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270282_15
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