| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 321 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Analysis |
Civil Service |
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Diplomacy |
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East Asia |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed June 10, 2021) |
| Subject |
Parkes, Harry, Sir, 1828-1885.
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| SUBJECT |
Parkes, Harry, Sir, 1828-1885
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Parkes, Harry, Sir, 1828-1885 fast |
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Diplomats -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Diplomatic relations
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Diplomats
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Japan
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Japan -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- China
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China -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Korea
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Korea -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain
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Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1837-1901.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056711
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China
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Great Britain
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Japan
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Korea
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781912961177 |
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1912961172 |
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