...Earl Swisher An Embassy to China; being the Journal Kept by Lord Macartney During his Embassy to the Emperor Ch'ien-lung, 1793–1794 . Edited with an Introduction and Notes by J. L. Cranmer-Byng . Hamden, Connecticut : Anchor Books , 1963 . xvi , 421 . Index. $7.50. Copyright ©...

... were to put Sino-British relations upon a treaty basis, redress various grievances in the existing commercial arrangements at Canton, open new ports to trade in north and central China, and, if possible, establish a permanent legation in China. As the objectives of the embassy were important...

...Holden Furber The Norris Embassy to Aurangzib . By H. H. Das . Calcutta : Firma K. L. Mukhopadhyay , 1959 . xxxi, 341 . Index to Names, Appendix. Rs. 20. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1961 1961 244 JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES left to their own devices, asserts...

...Jaeyoon Song A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea: Xu Jing's Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Koryŏ . Translated, annotated, and with an introduction by Sem Vermeersch . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2016 . xx, 367 pp. ISBN: 9780824856441 (cloth...

...Janet Welsh Michael Symes: Journal of his Second Embassy to the Court of Ava in 1803 . Ed. with Introduction and Notes by D. G. E. Hall . Issued with the co-operation of the Union Cultural Council, Government of the Union of Burma. Fair Lawn, N. J. : Essential Books , 1955 . lxxxix, 93...

...Eric Widmer The First Chinese Embassy to the West: The Journals of Kuo Sung-t'ao, Liu Hsi-hung and Chang Te-yi . Translated by J. D. Frodsham . Oxford : Clarendon Press , 1974 . lxv, 222 pp. Illustrations, Notes, Bibliography, Index. $13.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian...

...Gregory Henderson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1977 1977 Embassy at War: An Account of the Early Weeks of the Korean War and U.S. Relations with South Korean President Syngman Rhee . By Harold Joyce Noble , edited With an Introduction By Frank Baldwin . Seattle...

...Mark D. Ericson As We Saw Them: The First Japanese Embassy to the United States (1860) . By Masao Miyoshi . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1979 . xi, 232 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Index. $14.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS...

...Constance M. Wilson Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 A Siamese Embassy Lost in Africa 1686: The Odyssey of Ok-Khun Chamnan . By Michael Smithies . Chiang Mai, Thailand : Silkworm Books , 1999 . viii , 126 pp. $12.95 (paper). 202 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN...

... OF THE PROFESSION Chinese Documents of the British Embassy in Peking, 1793-1911 Eric Grinstead, Assistant Keeper, British Museum, and Hsin-pao Chang, Associate Professor of History, State University of Iowa. The recent growth of the city of Peking closures in the Miscellaneous series F.O. 233 involved...

...Lawrence D. Kessler Embassies and Illusions: Dutch and Portuguese Envoys to K'ang-hsi, 1666–1687 . By John E. Wills Jr . Cambridge : Harvard University, Council on East Asian Studies , 1984 . (East Asian Monographs 113.) xii, 303 pp. Appendixes, Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $20...

... or postulation on the societyreligion nexus or a more penetrating insight into the question of religion vis-a-vis society, state, and polity in the Vijayanagara empire, he or she will be frustrated. The book is more a narrative of facts. SUBHAKANTA BEHERA Embassy of India, Washington, D.C. Allan Octavian Hume...

... of the problems of the Later Han northern frontier. At the same time, they have reminded us how much more needs to be done. WILLIAM G. CROWELL United States Embassy, Beijing ...

...Marlene J. Mayo Abstract The Iwakura embassy's encounter with Hamilton Fish at the State Department in 1872 is far more than a quaint but insignificant episode in the relations between Japan and the United States and deserves resurrection from the footnotes of history. The two sides, much...

... of Japanese studies, he began his studies of Japan during his tenure in diplomatic posts. The long exposure and intimate knowledge of Japanese life that he received in the British Embassy in Tokyo between 1905 and 1940 provided a setting very different from contemporary academic arrangements whereby stays...

... a special embassy directly to the governments of the various Treaty Powers to plead for patience and forbearance. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1942 1942 1 For detailed studies of the Burlingame Mission, see Williams F. Wells , Anson Burlingame and the first Chinese...

... of Western and Japanese language diplomatic correspondence and numerous memoirs, letters, and diaries. The clash pitted die returning members of the Iwakura embassy and their allies at home against prominent officials in the caretaker government. The envoys, who had gained from their journey to die West...

... sŏnsaeng shilgi (Records on Yi Ye). Harvard-Yenching Library collection. Hashimoto Yu . 1997 . “ Chōsen e no ‘Ryūkyū kokuōshi’ to shokei–warifusei: Jūgo seiki no gishi mondai to Hakata shonin ” (‘Ryukyu Embassies’ to Chosŏn and the Letter of Introduction-Split Tally Seal System: The Problem...

... to be carefully protected. Precisely at this moment, context-based translation across different cultures requires even more courage, self-reflection, and humanism to reject the infiltration of imperialist and nationalist ideologies. Li Zibiao was more than a translator. He took part in the embassy with his...

... by reign series, volume and page, to which date of entry in eastern calendar is added. In the absence of other citation it may be assumed that the source is the T'ongmun'g'wanji. 1 The erroneous notion that Korea was a sort of tributary state of Japan, or that Korea sent frequent embassies to Japan...