Yeh Ming-Ch'en
Viceroy of Liang Kuang 1852-8

This important work will be studied with interest by historians of both China and England and of Anglo-Chinese relations.

J. Y. Wong (Author)

9780521103749, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 11 December 2008

284 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.6 cm, 0.42 kg

The western reader is here presented with a biography of a major figure on the Chinese side in the crucial period of China's political contact with the western world, which describes a man of his own time and country, with his own background of education, endeavour and achievement and not merely a figure symbolic of Chinese obstruction of British purposes as he was seen from London or Hong Kong. This important work will be studied with interest by historians of both China and England and of Anglo-Chinese relations.

Part I. Yeh's background and his time
Part II. The administrator
Part III. The military organiser
Part IV. The paymaster general
Part V. The imperial commissioner for foreign affairs
Part VI. Yeh's last days
Notes
Glossary
Bibliographical essay
Bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: General & world history [HBG]