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In 1863 China was ruled nominally by the Manchu emperor Ki Tsiang, a boy of 8, in fact by his uncle, Prince Kong, head of the regency council. The area of the 18 provinces of China proper was estimated at 1.3m. or l-4m. sq. miles; that of the whole empire from 3.8m. to 4.5m. Population estimates varied wildly, from 130m. to 412m. Eleven treaty ports were open for foreign trade; in 1863 the imports passing through them were estimated at £50.4m. (£2.4m. from Britain) and the exports at £31.5m. (£12.8m. to Britain).
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Steinberg, S.H. (1963). China. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270923_39
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