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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, 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. Satow was, however, both Japanophile and
Sinophile. In 1906 at the age of 63 he was ready to retire,
although he would have accepted a return to Tokyo if it had been
offered. The Peking post had been a demanding job with long and
arduous hours. He chose to reside at Beaumont House, Ottery St.
Mary, near Exeter partly because it reminded him of family holidays
in nearby Sidmouth, and partly to distance himself from London and
the Foreign Office. Though he was not offered another post, the
Foreign Office appointed him one of Britain's representatives at
the Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907. He was careful not to
discuss his service with journalists, and gave the Rede lecture at
Cambridge in 1908 on an historical subject, the career of the
Austrian diplomat Hubner. Satow's participation at the Hague helped
to launch his second career in retirement as a specialist in
international law, which was very much tempered with history in his
case. Satow found time post-retirement to join in local activities
such as magistrate, at both local and county levels. He put down
deep roots in the Ottery community and was buried in the
churchyard. He often saw old Japan friends and his English family
came to stay frequently. He was careful of his health, and went for
frequent walks with his dog, and took holidays when he could. The
editor has added extensive annotations and explanations to these
diaries, making this book an indispensable reference work for
students of Satow's life and times, as well as a snapshot album of
rural England just after the turn of the century.
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.
This is the third volume in a series of private letters written by
Sir Ernest Satow (1843-1929) to his close friends. Volume One
comprises his letters to Japanologists William George Aston and
Frederick Victor Dickins. Volume Two consists mainly of letters to
and from John Harington Gubbins who had worked under Satow in
Japan. In this third volume Satow mainly discusses international
law (law of the sea in wartime, Versailles peace treaty etc.) and
the current political situation in the UK and Europe, a far cry
from his East Asian focus on Japan which monopolised Volume One,
and was still evident in Volume Two. (Lord Reay had no experience
of Japan in his distinguished career.) The expert foreword is by
Dr. J.E. Hoare, formerly of H.M. Diplomatic Service and a Teaching
Fellow at S.O.A.S.
This volume consists mainly of letters exchanged between Sir Ernest
Satow (1843-1929) and his former subordinate John Harington Gubbins
(1852-1929) in their retirement, from 1906 to 1927. There are also
some letters from Satow to the Japanese art collector and
businessman the Hon. Henry Marsham (1845-1908) in the period
1894-1907. An expert foreword by Dr. J.E. Hoare, formerly of HM
Diplomatic Service and a teaching fellow at SOAS, is included.
Volume I consists of Satow's correspondence with William George
Aston and Frederick Victor Dickins, and is mainly on Japanology.
Volume III consists of Satow's correspondence with Lord Reay, on
international law and the social, political and economic situation
in Europe and the UK before, during and after World War One.
The diaries begin with Satow's journey home from his last
diplomatic post in China. He travels via Japan, Hawaii, mainland
United States and the Atlantic to Liverpool. In 1907 he attends the
Second Hague Peace Conference as Britain's second delegate. He
settles with some ease into rural life in Devon, keeping busy with
local commitments as a magistrate, supporter of missionaries etc.
and launching a major new career as a scholar of international law.
The Foreword is by Professor Ian Nish of the LSE.
The distinguished diplomat Sir Ernest Satow's retirement began in
1906 and continued until his death in August 1929. From 1907 he
settled in the small town of Ottery St. Mary in rural East Devon,
England. He was very active, serving as a British delegate at the
Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907 and on various committees
related to church, missionary and other more local affairs: he was
a magistrate and chairman of the Urban District Council. He had a
very wide social circle of family, friends and former colleagues,
with frequent distinguished visitors. He produced two seminal
books: A Guide to Diplomatic Practice (1917, now in its seventh
revised edition and referred to as 'Satow') and A Diplomat in Japan
(1921). The latter is highly evaluated as a rare foreigner's view
of the years leading to the Meiji Restoration of 1868. This book in
two volumes is the last in a series of Satow's diaries edited by
Ian Ruxton. This is the first-ever publication.
The distinguished diplomat Sir Ernest Satow's retirement began in
1906 and continued until his death in August 1929. From 1907 he
settled in the small town of Ottery St. Mary in rural East Devon,
England. He was very active, serving as a British delegate at the
Second Hague Peace Conference in 1907 and on various committees
related to church, missionary and other more local affairs: he was
a magistrate and chairman of the Urban District Council. He had a
very wide social circle of family, friends and former colleagues,
with frequent distinguished visitors. He produced two seminal
books: A Guide to Diplomatic Practice (1917, now in its seventh
revised edition and referred to as 'Satow') and A Diplomat in Japan
(1921). The latter is highly evaluated as a rare foreigner's view
of the years leading to the Meiji Restoration of 1868. This book in
two volumes is the last in a series of Satow's diaries edited by
Ian Ruxton. This is the first-ever publication.
The distinguished scholar-diplomat Sir Ernest Satow's retirement
began in 1906 and continued until his death in 1929. From 1907 he
settled in the small town of Ottery St. Mary in Devon. He was very
active, serving as a British delegate at the Second Hague Peace
Conference in 1907 and on various committees related to church,
missionary and other more local affairs: he was a magistrate and
chairman of the Urban District Council. He had a very wide social
circle of family, friends and former colleagues, with frequent
distinguished visitors. He produced two seminal books: A Guide to
Diplomatic Practice (1917, now in its seventh revised edition and
referred to as 'Satow') and A Diplomat in Japan (1921). The latter
is highly evaluated as a unique foreigner's view of the years
leading to the Meiji Restoration of 1868. These two volumes are
part of a series of Satow's diaries and letters edited by Ian
Ruxton. Maps and photographs are in both volumes. The index is in
Volume Two. This is the first-ever publication.
The second volume of Sir Ernest Satow's diaries, 1912-1920 sees the
publication of his seminal 'Guide to Diplomatic Practice' in 1917,
and preparations for the publication of 'A Diplomat in Japan' in
1921, while he continues to lead a very full and active life in
Ottery St. Mary, Devon. This volume includes the index to both
volumes, maps and photographs of the town. The foreword by T.G.
Otte, bibliography and Satow family tree are in Volume One. This is
a world first publication.
A list of the almost 1,400 letters held in Sir Ernest Satow's
General Correspondence files (1906-1927) at the National Archives
of the UK. They are mostly addressed to Satow in retirement but
there are also some copies of letters from him. This listing,
published for the first time, is intended to assist researchers and
scholars by giving them an overview of the extensive collection of
this most meticulous of diplomats.
This non-fiction book was first written in 1940, but could not be
published in wartime conditions because paper was scarce, and minds
were not on leisure pursuits. It was revised in the early 1950s.
The author's love of the sport of fishing and of his adopted
country Chile shines through the book, along with his gentle
humour. It was his hope and intention to introduce the wonderful
fly fishing in Chile to an English-reading audience. Now at last
this fine book is published. The editor has added a brief biography
of the author, footnotes and a preface, but otherwise the
manuscript is as it was in 1952.
These are the edited (i.e. transcribed, annotated and indexed)
diaries of Sir Ernest Satow (1843-1929) for the six years from the
time when he left Japan early in 1883, through his time as Agent
and Consul-General and subsequent promotion to Minister Resident at
Bangkok, until his return to London and his request in December
1887 for another posting on health grounds. The period includes his
visits to Japan (officially for rest and recuperation) in 1884 and
1886, and to Paris, Rome and Lisbon for research into the Jesuits
in Japan conducted early in 1888, and the confirmation of his
appointment to Montevideo in October of that year. Throughout the
period his ultimate goal was promotion to Minister in Japan, which
he achieved in 1895. The original diaries are in the National
Archives (UK). Published for the first time on lulu.com.
LARGE PAPERBACK. This book contains part of the voluminous
work-related private correspondence sent to Sir Ernest Satow while
he was Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary in Japan (1895-1900) from the Satow Papers held at
The National Archives, Kew, London, transcribed and published in
full from mostly handwritten originals with annotations added by
the editor for scholars and researchers. This is Volume Three, and
it includes letters from British diplomatic representatives
elsewhere, colonial and India authorities, Royal Navy officers,
Japanese government officials, foreign representatives in Tokyo and
miscellaneous letters. (Both previous volumes are available on
lulu.com.)
LARGE PAPERBACK. This book contains part of the voluminous
work-related private correspondence sent to Sir Ernest Satow while
he was Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary in Japan (1895-1900) from the Satow Papers held at
The National Archives, Kew, London, transcribed and published in
full from mostly handwritten originals with annotations added by
the editor for scholars and researchers. This is the fourth and
final volume, and it contains letters from Formosa where the
British Japan Consular Service took over staffing duties from the
China Service after the island was ceded to Japan by the Treaty of
Shimonoseki which concluded the Sino-Japanese War in 1895.
A companion volume to 'Baron Kaneko and the Russo-Japanese War'
(Lulu Press, 2009), this book relates the story of Baron Suematsu's
one-man campaign in Europe using the spoken and written word
against the dangerous bogey of Yellow Peril which fueled European
paranoia about China and Japan. Kaneko and Suematsu had similar
missions, though Kaneko who was sent to the United States was also
tasked with persuading President Theodore Roosevelt to broker a
peace settlement in due course, while Suematsu was more directly
involved in the fight against Yellow Peril which originated in
Europe, and with strengthening the Anglo-Japanese Alliance. Kaneko
was a lawyer with a knowledge of economics, while Suematsu was a
historian with a literary bent who produced the first ever English
translation of 'Genji Monogatari'. Both men were also politicians
and close to the Meiji oligarch Ito Hirobumi. They were the two
prongs of Japan's first ever public diplomacy initiative, and both
succeeded to a considerable degree.
LARGE PAPERBACK. This book contains part of the voluminous
work-related private correspondence sent to Sir Ernest Satow while
he was Her Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary in Japan (1895-1900) from the Satow Papers held at
The National Archives, Kew, London, transcribed and published in
full from mostly handwritten originals with annotations added by
the editor for scholars and researchers. This is Volume Two, and
contains mainly letters to Satow from the Yokohama consulate. There
are also letters from the Judges of H.M. Court in Japan, R.A. Mowat
(PRO 30/33 6/5) and H.S. Wilkinson (6/6), and from R.D. Robison,
Chairman of the Yokohama Chamber of Commerce (6/13).
A companion volume to 'Baron Kaneko and the Russo-Japanese War'
(Lulu.com, 2009), this book relates the story of Baron Suematsu's
one-man campaign in Europe using the spoken and written word
against the dangerous bogey of Yellow Peril which fueled European
paranoia about China and Japan and their presumed sinister
intentions of world domination. Kaneko and Suematsu had similar
missions, though Kaneko who was sent to the United States was also
tasked with persuading President Theodore Roosevelt to broker a
peace settlement while Suematsu was more directly involved in the
fight against Yellow Peril which originated in Europe. Kaneko was a
lawyer with a knowledge of economics, while Suematsu was a
historian with a literary bent. Both men were also politicians and
close to the Meiji oligarch Ito Hirobumi. They were the two prongs
of Japan's first ever public diplomacy initiative, and both
succeeded to a considerable degree.
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