CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS - CHEN, Xiafei, & Han Rongfang (eds).

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Confidential Correspondence Between Robert Hart and James Duncan Campbell, 1874-1907. First editions, first printings, complete with its original box, of this historical compendium equal in stature to Morse's Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China. The scope covers some 3,500 letters and 5,000 telegrams sent between Beijing and the customs service's London office, all drawn from the service's confidential archives and nearly all never before made publicly accessible.The volumes were born out of a long-running collaboration between the Second Historical Archives of China and the Institute of Modern History, China Academy of Social Sciences. The Hart-Campbell correspondence is presented unabridged and without editorial corrections, to retain as much of the original feel of the documents as possible. New editions have been published in China in the last two decades.

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