Frontmatter
VOLUME ONE PART I CHINA'S UNPREPAREDNESS FOR WESTERN CONTACT
1. THE PROBLEM OF CHINA'S RESPONSE TO THE WEST page 3
2. TRIBUTE AND THE GROWTH OF TRADE page 23
3. CH'ING POLICY AND THE CANTON SYSTEM page 39
PART II THE FIRST BRITISH TREATY SETTLEMENT 1842-43
4. OPIUM AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE CANTON SYSTEM page 57
5. THE OPIUM WAR, 1840-42 page 74
6. MANCHU DIPLOMACY AND THE TREATY OF NANKING, 1842 page 84
7. CH'I-YING'S APPEASEMENT POLICY page 104
8. THE TREATY SETTLEMENT OF 1843 page 114
9. THE OPIUM SETTLEMENT OF 1843 page 133
PART III THE APPLICATION OF THE TREATIES 1843-45
10. THE TREATY PORTS AND THE BRITISH CONSULS page 155
11. THE CHINESE RESPONSE TO WESTERN CONTACTpage 176
12. PROBLEMS IN THE APPLICATION OF THE TREATIES AT THE NEW PORTS page 200
13. THE OPIUM SETTLEMENT IN PRACTICE page 226
14. THE REORGANIZATION OF THE CANTON SYSTEM page 248
PART IV THE PROGRESSIVE BREAKDOWN OF THE TREATY SYSTEM 1845-51
15. ANGLO-CHINESE FRICTION page 267
16. GROWTH AND TAXATION OF THE LEGAL TRADE page 285
17. THE FOREIGN INVASION OF THE COASTING TRADE page 311
18. NINGPO: PIRACY AND CONVOY page 329
19. THE EVASION OF LEGAL DUTIES page 347
PART V THE CREATION OF THE FOREIGN INSPECTORATE OF CUSTOMS AT SHANGHAI 1850-54
20. PALMERSTON ABANDONS THE TREATY TARIFF 1850-51 page 371
21. WU CHIEN-CHANG AND THE "CANTONIZATION" OF SHANGHAI 1852-53 page 393
22. RUTHERFORD ALCOCK AND THE PROVISIONAL SYSTEM 1853-54 page 410
23. SIR JOHN BOWRING AND THE FOREIGN INSPECTORATE 1854 page 439
24. CONCLUSION: THE TREATIES SUCCEED THE TRIBUTE SYSTEM page 462
INDEX page 469
VOLUME TWO
REFERENCE NOTESpage 1
APPENDIX A: BRITISH PERSONNEL IN CHINA page 47
APPENDIX B: DATA ON THE CH'ING CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION AFTER THE TREATIES page 58
BIBLIOGRAPHY page 62
GLOSSARY OF CHINESE NAMES AND TERMS page 81
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