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The Diaries of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, 1900-1906 (ES 2 vols.) (Hardcover)
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The Diaries of Sir Ernest Mason Satow, 1900-1906 (ES 2 vols.) (Hardcover)
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The scholar and diplomat Sir Ernest Satow was the best-known
Westerner who lived in Meiji Japan. Although he rose to become
British Minister to Japan and China, the most interesting part of
his career was the start of it, when he witnessed, and in a small
way influenced, the fall of the Bakufu and the Meiji Restoration.
He wrote an account of this in a memoir called A Diplomat in Japan,
published in 1921. While Satow's appointment as Minister to Tokyo
in 1895 was understandable in terms of his background and skills,
he was not the obvious choice for the Beijing (Peking) Embassy in
1900. He was also well aware that the China post would be more
challenging, given Britain's large commercial interests in the
country, the large number of British residents and their dominance
at the treaty ports. Satow arrived in China in late September 1900.
After a brief stop in Shanghai, he moved up to Peking and began
work. He was at first unable to present his credentials as
minister, because the allies considered themselves at war with the
court. So from September 1900 until January 1902 he was technically
not the British minister but rather the British High Commissioner
for negotiations leading to the settlement of claims arising from
the Boxer uprising. Many issues of substance are to be found in
these diaries: the negotiations for the Boxer Protocol of 1901, the
status of the Peking Legation Quarter, the stationing of foreign
troops in China for protection purposes, and the Chinese indemnity
etc. Later Russo-Japanese tension over the Russian presence in
Manchuria, and the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05, receive much
attention. Other important issues included missionary matters,
railways and railway concessions, the Chinese Imperial Maritime
Customs, and the British China Consular Service. The editor has
added extensive annotations and explanations to these diaries,
making this book an indispensable reference work for students of
China at the start of the 20th century. For this edition Satow's
separate diary for the cottage at Ku-miao-tsun has also been
included and annotated.
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