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1. The Audience Question: Foreign Representatives and the Emperor of China, 1858–1873

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

Wang Tseng-Tsai
Wang Tseng-Tsai
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University of Taiwan
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The Historical Journal , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 1971 , pp. 617 - 626
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1 Cf. Tsiang, T. F., Chin-tai Chung-kuo wai-chiao-shih tzu-liao chi-yao (Selected Materials on Modern Chinese Diplomatic History) (2 vols., Shanghai, 1932–1934), 11, 64–5.Google Scholar

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15 This memorandum was originally prepared by Wade for Sir Rutherford Alcock, the British Minister. Alcock prepared a translation for Prince Kung as a reference. The original English version of it is not extant, but H. E. Wodhouse has made a free translation of it from the Chinese. See his ‘Mr Wade on China’, in The China Review, 1, 1 (July-Aug. 1872), 38–44 and 1, 2 (Sept.-Oct. 1872), 118–24.Google Scholar

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22 Ibid. 50, 30–1.

23 The circular letter and the replies of leading provincial officials are summarized in Knight Biggerstaff, ‘The Secret Correspondence of 1867–68: Views of Leading Chinese Statesmen Regarding the Further Opening of China to Western Influence’, The Journal of Modern History, XXII, 2 (06 1950), 122–36. For a Chinese version of them, see IWSM:TC, Chüan 51–6.Google Scholar

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28 Ibid. 68, 16. For details of the negotiations, see F.O. Print, vols. 1655 and 1791.

29 Ibid. 63, 64; 68, 26.

30 Ibid. 68, 16, 23, 26–7.

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36 Ibid. 89, 25–30.

37 Ibid. 89, 26.

38 Ibid. 89, 41–3, 47–8.

39 Ibid. 89, 49.

40 Ibid. 90, 1–5.

41 Ibid. 90, 5.

42 For details, see Ibid. 90 19–22, 23–31. The original Chinese minute can be found in F.O. 682/92, no. 3.

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46 For details, see F.O. 881/2385, nos. 1 and 2, Wade to Earl Granville, 7 and 10 July 1873, and their enclosures. The Tsungli Yamen's original note can be found in F.O. 682/85, no. 3.

47 IWSM:TC, 90, 27; F.O. 881/2385, nos. 1 and 5, Wade to Earl Granville, 7 and 21 July 1873; Morse, , Relations, 11, 267.Google Scholar

48 For the French text of the address, see F.O. 881/2385, no. 1, Wade to Earl Granville, 7 July 1873, enclosure 3.

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