Eastern Asia a History Being the Second Edition of a Brief History of Eastern

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Eastern Asia a History Being the Second Edition of a Brief History of Eastern
Ian Campbell Hannah
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It was obvious that some reforms must be carried out if the Empire was to Reforms. .
accommodate itself to new conditions at all, but they were undertaken as disagreeable necessities, and foreign institutions were borrowed with reluctance and applied with slight knowledge of their true principles. Chinese troops were drilled by foreign officers, who were tied by so many restrictions that it was impossible for them to do very much. An Englishman, H. N. Lay, who, with other Europeans, had been em
...- Customs Serrice.
ployed by a taotai'^ to collect the custom dues at Shanghai, in despair of finding suitable Chinese, was commissioned to purchase some gunboats in England, but they were sent away owing to a series of muddles, in which the blame was by no means altogether on the side of the Chinese. In 1868 a Chinese Embassy in charge of Anson Burlingame, an xA. Merican, was sent to twelve other Powers.
After Lay the management of the Customs was placed in the hands of Mr. (now Sir Robert) Hart, who has in his long period of office as Inspector-General brought the service to a high state of efficiency.


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