H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and Historian of China

By Richard J. Smith, Martha Henderson Coolidge, John King Fairbank

Book Overview

Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China's foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch'ing dynasty's foreign affairs several seminal in

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813160022
• ISBN13: 9780813160023
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher