About this title: Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China's foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch'ing dynasty's foreign affairs several seminal interpretive histories, most notably his three volume magnum opus, The International Relations of the ...
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Edition: First Edition; First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780813119342ISBN:0813119340
Description: Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0813119340. 314 pp. Illustrated. Excellent condition book and dustjacket.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
Description: No wear to binding, faint wear to dust jacket, protected in a new mylar cover, pages are clean and unmarked. No remainder mark. Hard cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: U. Press of Kentucky, Lexington
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780813119342ISBN:0813119340
Description: Fine, dj F, 314 pp. Illustrated. "At the time of his death [1934], Morse was considered the major historian of modern China in the English-speaking world..." Fine, dj F, 314 pp. Illustrated. "At the time of his death [1934], Morse was considered the major historian of modern China in the English-speaking world..." Hard cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: U. Press of Kentucky, Lexington
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780813119342ISBN:0813119340
Description: New, dj new, 314 pp. Illustrated. "At the time of his death [1934], Morse was considered the major historian of modern China in the English-speaking world..." New, dj new, 314 pp. Illustrated. "At the time of his death [1934], Morse was considered the major historian of modern China in the English-speaking world..." Hard cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: U. Press of Kentucky, Lexington
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780813119342ISBN:0813119340
Description: New, dj new, 314 pp. Illustrated. "At the time of his death [1934], Morse was considered the major historian of modern China in the English-speaking world..." New, dj new, 314 pp. Illustrated. "At the time of his death [1934], Morse was considered the major historian of modern China in the English-speaking world..." Hard cover. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: U.P. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Date Published: 1995
Description: 18 B/W Photos & 1 Endmap. NEW! W/Dust Jacket 314pp(Index) It's NEW! ! NO ink names, DJ tears etc. This is a NEW book. ISBN 8131 1934 0. read more
Edition: 1st Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: U.P. of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780813119342ISBN:0813119340
Description: 18 B/W Photos & 1 Endmap. Very Fine/Very Fine Almost NEW! W/Dust Jacket 314pp(Index) Clean, tight & bright. NO ink names, bookplates, DJ tears etc. ISBN 0813119340. read more
Description: (Lexington), Univ. Press of Kentucky, (1995). Cloth, fine in d/w, endpaper map, illust., pp. xiii, 314. ISBN 0-8131-1934-0. After 35 years in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service Morse turned to scholarship, specializing in the study of China's foreign relations and being considered at the time of his death the leading historian of modern China in the English-speaking world. read more
Description: (Lexington), Univ. Press of Kentucky, (1995). Cloth, fine in d/w, endpaper map, illust., pp. xiii, 314. ISBN 0-8131-1934-0. After 35 years in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service Morse turned to scholarship, specializing in the study of China's foreign relations and being considered at the time of his death the leading historian of modern China in the English-speaking world. read more
Edition: 1st Edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Lexington: University Press of Kentucky
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780813119342ISBN:0813119340
Description: Description: xiii, 314 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm. Subjects: Morse, Hosea Ballou (1855-1934). Customs administration--China--Officials and employees--Biography. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 247-299) and index. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. 1. pp. 314. read more
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