03360oam 2200577 450 991079420350332120231218221148.01-912961-17-210.1515/9781912961177(CKB)4100000011716784(MiAaPQ)EBC6452225(MiAaPQ)EBC6475969(OCoLC)1231607768(MdBmJHUP)musev2_97772(DE-B1597)612144(DE-B1597)9781912961177(UkCbUP)CR9781912961177(OCoLC)1322124458(EXLCZ)99410000001171678420220609d2021|||| uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierA life of Sir Harry Parkes British Minister to Japan, China and Korea, 1865-1885 /Robert MortonFolkestone :Renaissance Books,2021.1 online resource (xvii, 321 pages) digital, PDF file(s)1-912961-16-4 Frontmatter --Contents --Preface --Introduction --List of Illustrations --1 ‘Watch Therefore For Ye Knows Not’ --2 ‘A Sharp Intelligent Lad’ --3 ‘Not Sufficient to Satisfy Me’ --4 ‘Here I am Now Perfectly Alone’ --5 ‘A Continuous Settled Life Has No Charms for Me’ --6 ‘I Saw a Good Deal’ --7 ‘I Distinctly Declined to Accede’ --8 ‘Hasty Love-making’ --9 ‘It Is the Cause of the West against the East’ --10 ‘Never Sparing Himself in Any Way’ --11 ‘The Executioner Stood by with Uplifted Sword’ --12 ‘I Do Not at All Like Being in a Great Man’s Train’ --13 Sir Harry Parkes --14 ‘The Drudgery of the Service’ --15 ‘The Appointment is Particularly Gratifying to Me’ --16 ‘The Most Superior Japanese’ --17 The Meiji Restoration --18 ‘We of Course Hope for Improvement’ --19 ‘This is Becoming Civilised with a Vengeance’ --20 ‘I Arrived Too Late’ --21 ‘I Am Deeply Sensible of the Services You have Rendered’ --22 ‘The Last Semi-civilised State’ --23 ‘I Can Find No Rest’ --Epilogue --Bibliography --Acknowledgements --NOTES --Index --The AuthorHarry Parkes was at the heart of Britain's relations with the Far East from fourteen, to his death at fifty-seven. In his day, he was seen as both a hero and a monster and is still bitterly resented in China for his part in the country's humiliations at Western hands, but largely esteemed in Japan for helping it to industrialise.DiplomatsGreat BritainBiographyGreat BritainForeign relationsJapanJapanForeign relationsGreat BritainGreat BritainForeign relationsChinaChinaForeign relationsGreat BritainGreat BritainForeign relationsKoreaKoreaForeign relationsGreat BritainGreat BritainForeign relations1837-1901Civil Service.Diplomacy.East Asia.Diplomats327.41/0092Morton Robert1965-1501589UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910794203503321A life of Sir Harry Parkes3728797UNINA