The Peking (Beijing) diaries (1900-06) of the great
Victorian-Edwardian diplomat Sir Ernest Satow, published for the
first time ever on lulu.com as a PAPERBACK and DOWNLOAD, by
permission of the National Archives (UK) on behalf of the
Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, with an introduction
by China expert J.E. Hoare. Satow was Britain's top diplomat in
China when he wrote this journal, as he called it. He replaced Sir
Claude MacDonald after the Siege of the Peking Legations which
occurred during the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, and he observed the
Russo-Japanese War (1904-05) from Peking. Volume One of two volumes
(total 812 pages). 420 pages in this volume with many footnotes,
and a 73-page index of names in Volume Two.
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