IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF COPYRIGHT,1953 BY THE PRESIDENT.AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE HOSEA BALLOU MORSE (855-I934) A.B.;Harvard,1874,LL.D.1924. Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs. Historian of Chinese Foreign Relations. DR.MoRse's contribution to our understanding of modern China's relations with the West was based on his two careers,in the Customs, and in historical research.After graduation from the Boston Latin School DISTRIBUTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY and from Harvard in 1874,he entered the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service with three of his classmates.In the next thirty-five GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE years he served at Shanghai,Peking,Tientsin,Pakhoi,Tamsui,Lungchow, OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS Hankow,and Canton,and on many special assignments,concluding with LONDON the post of Statistical Secretary in the Inspectorate General.On retire- ment in Igo8 he settled in England,publishing his first large work,The Trade and Administration of the Chinese Empire that same year,the first volume of The International Relations of the Chinese Empire in Igro,and the second and third in 1918.In 1ga6 he completed The Chronicles of the East India Compuny Trading to China in four volumes, with a fifth in 1929.These books still constitute the starting point for study of China's foreign relations,particularly with Britain,between 1634 and I9rI. Dr.Morse's second career,as a scholar,was informed and guided by his earlier practical experience as a civil servant of China.Though he lived through the decades of foreign imperialism and the collapse of the Chinese Empire,his historical work avoids the obtrusive chauvinism of the Western treaty port community of that period.He was a scholar un- usually devoted to the ideal of scrupulous,impartial,and accurate pres- entation of the facts.To me,as to other beginners,he offered generous encouragement and wise counsel,while his work gave us firm ground upon which to build our smaller contributions. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 52-12260 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICACOPYRIGHT, 1953 BY THE PRESIDENT· AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE DISTRIBUTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY GEOFFREY CUMBERLEGE OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS LONDON LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOG CARD NUMBER 52-12260 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF HOSEA BALLOU MORSE (18 55-1 934) A.B., Harvard, 1874, LL.D., 1924. Commissioner of Chinese Maritime Customs. Historian of Chinese Foreign Relations. DR. MORSE'S contribution to our understanding of modern China's relations with the West was based on his two careers, in the Customs, and in historical research. After graduation from the Boston Latin School and from Harvard in 1874, he entered the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service with three of his classmates. In the next thirty-five years he served at Shanghai, Peking, Tientsin, Pakhoi, Tamsui, Lungchow, Hankow, and Canton, and on many special assignments, concluding with the post of Statistical Secreta.ry in the Inspectorate General. On retire￾ment in' 1908 he settled in England, publishing his first large work, The Trade and Administration of the Chinese Empire that same year, the first volume of The International Relations of the Chinese Empire in 1910, and the second and third in 1918. In 1926 he completed The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China in four volumes, with a fifth in 1929. These books still constitute the starting point for study of China's foreign relations, particularly with Britain, between 1634 and 1911. Dr. Morse's second career, as a scholar, was informed and guided by his earlier practical experience as a civil servant of China. Though he lived through the decades of foreign imperialism and the collapse of the Chinese Empire, his historical work avoids the obtrusive chauvinism of the Western treaty port community of that period. He was a scholar un￾usually devoted to the ideal of scrupulous, impartial, and accurate pres￾entation of the facts. To me, as to other beginners, he offered generous encouragement and wise counsel, while his work gave us firm ground upon which to build our smaller contributions