The Tientsin Massacre: Being Documents Published in the Shanghai Evening Courier, From June 16th to Sept; 10th, 1870, With an Introductory Narrative (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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9780267717842: The Tientsin Massacre: Being Documents Published in the Shanghai Evening Courier, From June 16th to Sept; 10th, 1870, With an Introductory Narrative (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Tientsin Massacre: Being Documents Published in the Shanghai Evening Courier, From June 16th to Sept; 10th, 1870, With an Introductory Narrative

Such ideas being carefully disseminated throughout China by the literati, a class much reverenced by the people, and directly interested in the perpetuation of existing misgovern ment, it was not unnatural, however strange and unseasonable it might appear, that while Mr. Burlingame was drawing pic tures as fair as they were false of China's rapid progress. In all that constitutes national improvement, the misconceptions to which his friendly reception in Europe and America gave rise among the Chinese, became the fruitful cause of many deplor able acts, which show how utterly false and misleading the Burlingame Mission was, both in its design and in its execution. The celebrated speech delivered by Mr. Burlingame in New York; his successful interviews With Lord Clarendon; and his grand reception in the centre of European diplomacy, were fittingly succeeded by the long smouldering troubles of For mosa bursting into Open violence, and were rapidly followed by those at Chefoo, in Szechuen, at Yangchow, and Swatow. It was supposed that such accumulated evidence of the false hood of Burlingame's representations would have caused a reaction in England and America against his temporising policy; more especially as the repressive measures of Admiral Keppel and Consuls Medhurst, Gibson and Alabaster - men trained under the vigorous policy of our earlier Chinese inter course - _proved in the highest degree successful. But, unhap pily, Burlingame had so skilfully adapted his representations to the favorite ideas of some leading western statesmen - ideas which, however congenial to the condition of Europe at the close of the nineteenth century, are as inapplicable to China now as they would have been to Europe three centuries ago that he was speedily able to notify to the Chinese that England disapproved of the action of her civil and naval officials in' the.

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