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Foreign Relations and Diplomacy

This theme includes accounts of foreign embassies to the Chinese court, texts of international treaties, foreign opinions on relations with the Chinese, historical and legal articles on Chinese relations with other countries, legislative proceedings and correspondence between policymakers.

Title	Author / Creator	Date	Place of Publication

Title	Author / Creator	Date	Place of Publication
Addresses presented to William T. Mercer, M.A., Oxon, colonial secretary, member of the executive and legislative councils, &c., and recently acting governor, of Hong Kong: with services, testimonials, &c.		1867	London
America and Japan		23 November 1917	New York
An American congressman in the Orient	Austin, Richard W.	1915	Knoxville, Tenn.
American interests in Asia	Moreno, Celso Ceasare	1869	New York
American interests in the Far East	Barrett, John	1899	New York
American-Japanese intercourse prior to the advent of Perry	Nitobe?, Inazo	[1911]	Washington
Asia's appeal to America	Gulick, Sidney L.
The A B C's of the twenty-one demands	Millard, Thomas F.	5 December 1921
British and foreign state papers, 1894-1895	Oakes, Augustus H.; Maycock, Willoughby	1900	London
The British colony of Hongkong and the Chinese government		1899	Hong Kong
The British commercial treaty with China		1902	Shanghai
British India. The duty and interest of Great Britain, to consider the condition and claims of her possessions in the East		1839	London
Can the hostile proceedings of the British at Canton be justified?	E.J.	1857	London
China and Crete: a criticism and a warning	Bartlett, E. Ashmead, Sir	February 1899
China and the League of Nations	Koo, V. K. Wellington; Wang, Cheng-Ting T.	[1919?]	London
China and the nations	Gulick, Sidney L.	[1915]
China Question	MacDonald, James	1870	London
China under the republic	Latourette, Kenneth Scott	September 1921
China vs. Japan		February 1919	New York
China's claims at the peace table		March 1919	New York
China's intercourse with Korea	Rockhill, William Woodville	1905	London
China's position in international finance		[1918?]	London
China's relation with the West	Wu Ting-fang, 1842-1922	[1899]	Philadelphia
China, Anglo-America, and corn: a lecture	Sharp, Granville	1899	Hong Kong
China, Nepaul, Bhutan, and Sikkim: their mutual relations as set forth in Chinese official documents	Parker, Edward Harper, 1849-1926	[1912]	[Manchester, England]
China. Speech of the Right Hon. Lord Naas, M.P. in calling attention to our relations with China in the House of Commons, Monday, July 6, 1863	Naas, Lord	1863
China: Foreign Relations		1884-1887
Chinese expansion historically reviewed	Suematsu, Kencho?, 1855-1920	[1905]	[London]
Chinese intercourse with the countries of central and western Asia during the fifteenth century	Bretschneider, E., 1833-1901	1877	Hong Kong
The Chinese question	Hallett, Holt S.
Chino-Japanese treaties of 1915		1919	London
Chusan and Hong-Kong: with remarks on the treaty of peace at Nankin in 1842, and on our present position and relations with China	Urmston, James B., Sir	1847	London
The conditions of peace between the East and the West	DeForest, J.H.	1908
Congressional record, fifty-seventh Congress, first session, February 17 to March 1, 1902: discussion on China		1902	Washington
Convention between the United Kingdom and China respecting an extension of Hong Kong territory, signed at Peking, June 9, 1898		1898	London
Corea and the powers	Duncan, Chesney	1889	Shanghai
Corea: from the Quarterly Review		January 1883
Correspondence regarding the negotiations between Japan and Russia (1903-1904)		1904	Washington D.C.
The cyclopedic review of current history		March 1901	Boston, Mass.
The destruction of Kagosima, and our intercourse with Japan	Richard, Henry	1863	London
Diplomatic audiences at the court of China	Rockhill, William Woodville, 1854-1914	1905	London
Documents communicated by the president of the United States in relation to the treaty with the Ta Tsing empire	United States Department of State	[1845]	[Washington]
Duty to the republic	Sigel, Franz	1877	New York
The Eastern Question; a summary view of it for busy men, by one of themselves	Bergner, Charles H.	1876	Harrisburg
The economic aspects of the Shantung question		August 1919	New York
England and China: their future duty, interest, and safety: in a letter to the Right Hon. Sir R. Peel, bart. &c. &c. &c., by an Englishman		1842	London
The event of the hour		1876
Fair play for the Republic of China	Seaman, Major Louis Livingston	18 November 1912	New York
First annual dinner of the Periodical Publishers' Association of America held at the New Willard	Speer, Robert E.	1904	New York
The Foreign Office, and our policy in China: letters by H.N. Lay, C.B.; a letter by Captain Sherard Osborn, R.N., C.B.; with two replies by the Right Hon. E. Hammond, permanent under-secretary for foreign affairs	Lay, Horatio N.	1868	[London]
A general view of Chinese civilization and of the relations of the west with China	Laffitte, M. Pierre; Hall, John Carey	1887	Yokohama
A general view of Chinese civilization and of the relations of the West with China. From the French, translated by John Carey Hall	Laffitte, Pierre, 1823-1903	1887	London
Germans as exponents of culture	Frantzius, Fritz von	20 October 1914	Chicago
Has the United States a duty and a destiny to fulfill in China?	Webster, John Lee, 1847-	[1900?]
Helps for leaders of discussion groups	Gulick, Sidney L.
The history of early relations between the United States and China, 1784-1844	Latourette, Kenneth Scott	January 1918
The hostility of China	Kang Yu Wei	May 1906	New York
How is the queen's government to be carried on?		March 1866	London
International conciliation: the United States and China	Wei-Ching, W. Yen	June 1909	New York
Is aboriginal Formosa a part of the Chinese Empire?		1874
Is Japan a menace to the United States?	DeForest, J.H., Rev	1908	Washington D.C.
Journal of the American Association of China. Vol. 2, no. 5 (whole no. 20) November, 1907, Secretary Taft's visit to Shanghai	American Association of China	1907	Shanghai
Kidnapped in London: being the story of my capture by, detention at, and release from the Chinese legation, London	Sun Yat-sen, 1866-1925	1897	Bristol
League of Nations. Chinese delegation. Revision of unequal treaties: China appeals to the League of Nations	Chao-Hsin Chu	1926	London
Lest we forget: a keepsake from the nineteenth century		[1901?]
Letter from legation of the United States in China	Davis, Jno. W.; Forbes, R.B.	16 May 1850
Letter from Ta-Ping-Wang, Toungoo	Ta-Ping-Wang	24 September 1862
Letter to the Right Hon. Charles Grant, president of the Board of Control, on the present state of British intercourse with China	Marjoribanks, Charles	1833	London
Letter to the Right Hon. Charles Grant, president of the board of control, on the present state of British intercourse with China	Marjoribanks, Charles	1833	London
Letter to the Right Honourable Viscount Palmerston on British relations with China	Lindsay, Hugh Hamilton, 1802-1881	1836	London
Manchu relations with Tibet, or Si-tsang	Parker, E.H.
A memoir of the principal occurrences during an embassy from the British Government to the court of China in the year 1816	Morrison, Robert, Rev Dr	1819	London
A memoir of the principal occurrences during an embassy from the British government to the court of China in the year 1816	Morrison, Robert, 1782-1834	1820	London
A memorial of Anson Burlingame, late envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary from the Chinese empire to the treaty powers	Boston (Mass.) City Council	[1870]	[Boston]
Message from the president of the United States to the two houses of Congress at the beginning of the first session of the fifty-first Congress, with the reports of the heads of departments and selections from accompanying documents	Michael, W.H.	1890	Washington
Message from the President of the United States, in answer to a resolution of the Senate of February 25, 1845, in reference to the correspondence between the commander of the East India squadron and foreign powers, &c...	United States Navy	[1846]	[Washington]
The morning of my life in China: comprising an outline of the history of foreign intercourse from the last year of the regime of Honorable East India Company, 1833: to the imprisonment of the foreign community in 1839	Nye, Gideon, 1812-1888	1873	Canton
A most solemn and important epistle to the emperor of China	Wolcot, John, Dr	[1817]
Mutual helpfulness between China and the United States	Wu, Ting-Fang	1901	Washington
The Nation, volume CIV		1917	New York
New Japan and her problems	Gulick, Sidney L.	[1916]
Niles' Weekly Register	Niles, H.	1817	Baltimore
Notes of a trip to the island of Saghalin	Anderson, Geo. C.	1881	Shanghai
On the knowledge possessed by the Ancient Chinese of the Arabs and Arabian Colonies, and other Western countries	Bretschneider, E.	1871	London
The open door in China	Lin, C.J.	November 1921
Opinion of the attorney general concerning the judicial authority of the commissioner or minister and of consuls of the United States in China and Turkey	Cushing, Caleb, United States Attorney-General	1855	Washington
Order in council for China & Japan 1881	Privy Council, Great Britain	1881	Shanghai
Our interests in China. A letter to the Right Hon. Earl Russell, K.G.	Lay, Horatio N.	1864	London
Our interests in China: a letter to the Right Hon. Earl Russell	Lay, Horatio N.	[1864]	London
Our national relations with China	Bishop of Victoria	1857	London
Our policy in China	Sinnett, Alfred Percy	1869	London
Our relations with China	Richard, Henry	1876	London
The Pacific and the Amoor. Naval, military, and diplomatic operations from 1855 to 1861	Marx, Francis	May 1861	London
The Periodical		February 1918	New York
A plea for fair play and the recognition of the Chinese Republic	Seaman, Louis Livingston, Major	1913
The political state of the British Empire	Adolphus, John	1818	London
The powers in the Pacific		1903	Shanghai
The quarrel between Great Britain and China		April 1840
Quarterly register of current history		1891
Questions of the day. No 1	Tyler, Captain	1857	London
The rationale of England's attitude toward China	Nye, G.	[1876?]
Reception and entertainment of the Chinese embassy, by the city of Boston		1868	Boston
The relations between China and Japan during the last twenty-five years		1919	London
The relations between China, Russia and Mongolia	Williams, E.T.	October 1916
Reports, minutes and despatches, on the British position and prospects in China	Martin, Robert Montgomery, 1803?-1868	[1846]	London
The responsibility of Great Britain for the present crisis in China, and our duties for the future in the Far East	Pickering, W.A.	1900	London
The royal visit to Shanghai		1890
The rupture with China, and its causes: including the opium question, and other important details, in a letter to Lord Viscount Palmerston by a resident in China		1840	London
The Russians in Manchuria	Kropotkin, P.	May 1901
The Russo-Chinese question		August 1880	Shanghai
Settlement at last in China		February 1901
A sketch of Russo-Chinese intercourse	Williams, Frederick Wells, 1857-1928	[1891]	[New Haven]
The Spectator		1848	London
Speech on the bill appropriating forty thousand dollars to enable the president to establish commercial relations between the United States and China	Clark, J.C.	1843	Washington
Substance of the speech of Lord Grenville, on the motion made by the Marquis Wellesley in the House of Lords, on Friday, the 9th of April, 1813, for the production of certain papers on Indian affairs	Grenville, Lord	[1813]	London
Thirty years' view; or, a history of the working of the American government for thirty years, from 1820 to 1850	Benton, Thomas Hart	1889	New York
Treaties and conventions concluded between the United States of America and other powers since July 4, 1776		1889	Washington
A treaty between the United States of America and the Ta Tsing Empire		1845
Treaty of commerce and navigation between China and Japan made at Peking, July 21st, 1896		1896	Shanghai
Treaty of commerce and navigation rules, text of agreements between Great Britain and China		1902	Shanghai
The Treaty of Nanking, signed August 29th, 1842, and the supplementary treaty, signed October 8th, 1843. In the Chinese and English languages		1844	Macau
Tribute of the Chamber of Commerce of the state of New-York, to the memory of Anson Burlingame, late ambassador from China, March 3d, 1870	Cowdin, Elliot C.	1870	New York
The truth about Shantung: moral, legal, economic and political aspects	The Chinese Students' Alliance of the United States	August 1919	New York
Wanted - a man for Pekin	Walker, Guy M.	1909
Washington, D. C. Conference on the limitation of armament, 1921-1922. Conversations between the Chinese and Japanese representatives in regard to the Shantung question	The Chinese Delegation	1923	Washington
The West Coast Magazine	West, Ozmun; Foo Pan Key	August 1911	Los Angeles
What shall we do with our dependencies?	Storey, Moorfield	1903	Boston
Why China refused to sign the peace treaty		July 1919	New York
The world peace and Chinese tariff autonomy		1919	London
World reconstruction	The American Branch of the World Alliance for Promoting International Friendship Through the Churches

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