...Mary C. Wright Abstract Historians of the modern Far East have usually assumed that in spite of the founding of the Tsungli-yamen and the launching of the self-strengthening movement of the 1860's, Chinese foreign policy remained weak, inept, and uninformed. Typically, China's handling...

...°- Maspero brilliantly recognizes this point in China and the West, subtitled The Origins his treatment of China, in which he eschews of the Tsungli Yatnen, is an analysis of the the dim past for the clear present, and as- international and domestic struggles in China serts, "People become gods every day...

... Times , June 22, 1895, p. 272; Cordier, Histoire des Relations de la Chine , III, 323; Gerard A. , Ma Mission en Chine ( Paris , 1918 ), pp. 86 – 87 . The references in Cordier and Gerard are very brief. 13 Denby to the Tsungli Yamen, July 1, 1895, Enclosure, Denby to Olney...

... and until the Anglo-French expedition of i860. The last three chapters focus on the final negotiations of i860 and the consolidation of power by Prince Kung. The culmi- nation of these developments, and the climax of the book, was the establishment of the Tsungli Yamen in January, 1861. Particularly notable...

.... These bureaucratic weak- ministers in Peking. From the Tsungli Yamen nesses, together with the gentry's selfish in- archives at the Institute of Modern History, terests, lay at the bottom of many local Mr. Lii has drawn many dramatic details that disputes and incidents over missionaries and substantiate the points...

... of Kwangtung and chin-shih of 1853. Later he became an undersecretary in the board of punishments. In 1872 he took the first contingent of students to the United States. In 1875 he was appointed minister to the United States, Spain, and Peru. He was recalled in 1881. In 1882 he was appointed to the Tsungli...

...Pichon P. Y. Loh Abstract “For forty years,” Sun Yat-sen said in March 1925 in the Tsungli's Will , “I have devoted myself to the cause of the people's revolution with but one end in view, the elevation of China to a position of freedom and equality among the nation.” “But,” he lamented, “the work...

...Warren B. Walsh Abstract Late in November, 1867, Anson Burlingame resigned his post as U. S. Minister to China and accepted the invitation of the Tsungli Yamen to take part in China's first diplomatic mission to the Treaty Powers. The minister's party left Peking on November 25, 1867. The second...

... by the blatant threats of the French tury Ch'ing officials. These bureaucratic weak- ministers in Peking. From the Tsungli Yamen nesses, together with the gentry's selfish in- archives at the Institute of Modern History, terests, lay at the bottom of many local Mr. Lii has drawn many dramatic details...

... relations; thus, about the early government schools. As is al- after i860 we see the establishing of the Tsungli ways the case, however, the nature of the Yamen, the sending of diplomatic missions available sources is a limiting factor; some abroad, and the growth of relations with West- questions...

... concluding that the sources have been used relations with the West in accordance with the exhaustively to answer significant questions Western system of international relations; thus, about the early government schools. As is al- after i860 we see the establishing of the Tsungli ways the case, however...

..., the Grand Council and the Tsungli Yamen submitted a plan suggesting that the university have jurisdiction over the provincial schools, that it have a primary and secondary school attached to it, and that a library, a laboratory, and several bureaus of compilation and translation also be established...

... of documents, of Modern History has also received custody of which all but 35, dealing with the period of the diplomatic archives of the early Republi- after 1927, are open for research. The late can period and is beginning to publish them. Ch'ing documents of the Tsungli Yamen and The first products...

... I assume from Li's letters and comments made by the Tsungli Yamen in May, 1874, that there was a record of some sort (Yen, Taiwan in China's Foreign Relations, pp. 217–218; NGB, VI, 75–77). There is a partial English translation, omitting the remarks on Macao and Korea, of the Japanese record...

... position to further their business enterprises.2 * The author is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas. 1MSS. National Archives. Peking legation records, Chinese correspondence (hereafter Peking Chin, corn), Denby to Tsungli Yamen, Aug. 24, 1895. Unless otherwise indicated, this paper...

... of the government, thus revealing unmistakable symptoms of administrative decay. Weng's attitude toward foreigners and foreign affairs, as the Diary shows, was that of a "conservative" scholar-official. He was reluctant to serve in the Grand Council and Tsungli Yamen because these assignments entailed involvement...

... in detail the diplomatic procedure of the foreign powers in China; the backwardness and incompetence of the Tsungli Yamen, China's Foreign Office of the period; the Kashgar crisis in which China opposed Russia's seizure of a western province; the effect of European politics on the diplomatic situation...

... [1968 The Tsungli Yamen's initial refusal to sign a treaty with Japan and the opposition to the treaty from such Ch'ing officials as Ying-han are described but not explained, which will leave many readers, except the specialists, puzzled. The Chinese insistence on calling the treaty "t'iao-kuei" (rules...

... Wang T'ao was one, for example. See Cohen Paul A. , “ Wang T'ao and Incipient Chinese Nationalism ,” Journal of Asian Studies , XXVI ( 1967 ), 568 –69. 4 This information on the Tsungli Yamen and the leading officials is taken from a longer discussion in my Ph.D. dissertation...

..., Taipei, 1966. Hardcover $1.00. Paperback $.80. The Institute of Modern History of the Academia Sinica in Taiwan, exploiting the archives of the Tsungli yamen and the Wai-wu pu which are in its possession, has in recent years focused much of its research activities on the critical decade before the 1911...