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Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59.

Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59.

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電子版あり 大学・学術機関向け電子ブック(eBook)ISBN 9781139178778
著者・編者Oliphant, Laurence,
シリーズ (Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59 2 Volume Set Volume 2)
出版社 (Cambridge University Press, UK)
出版年月2012
ページ数554 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A02-47572>

解説

In 1857 Laurence Oliphant (1829-88), lawyer, journalist, diplomat and sometime spy, later Liberal MP, satirical novelist, and, for a time, adherent of the religious mystic Thomas Harris, became private secretary to Lord Elgin (1811-63), accompanying him to China, and thence to Japan, on a mission to protect and extend British trading interests in the region. Oliphant's 1859 account of the trip was published in two volumes. Volume 2 deals with the negotiation of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Yedo, the legalisation of the Chinese opium trade and combat with Chinese insurgents at Nankin. The work is a mixture of travel narrative - Oliphant had previously written about his travels in Nepal and in the Crimea (also reissued in this series) - and political analysis. It provides both an informative account of the war from a privileged vantage point and a window upon Oliphant's own colourful career.