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Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59 (Paperback)
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Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-East Asian History, Volume 1
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In 1857 Laurence Oliphant (1829-88), lawyer, journalist, diplomat,
and sometime spy, later Liberal MP, satirical novelist, and, for a
time, adherent of the religious mystic Thomas Harris, became
private secretary to Lord Elgin (1811-63), accompanying him to
China, and thence to Japan, on a mission to protect and extend
British trading interests in the region. Oliphant's 1859 account of
the trip was published in two volumes. Volume 1 deals with the
events of the Second Opium War, from the 'Arrow Incident',
discussed in retrospect, to the Treaty of Tientsin, as well as an
early diversion to India to suppress the Mutiny. The work is a
mixture of travel narrative - Oliphant had previously written about
his travels in the Crimea (also reissued in this series) - and
political analysis. It provides both an informative account of the
war from a privileged vantage point and a window upon Oliphant's
colourful career.
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