viii 中 Chapter X. Chapter XIX. Building up the Service:Defining its status and scope:Recruiting Rumoured resignation of Hart:Chinese officials as traders: its personnel:Relations between Commissioners and Chinese Abuses of outward transit trade:Steam navigation on the Superintendents :58 Upper Yangtse:The opening of Chungking:Proposed purchase of Macao:Sikkim:The Mason affair:Postal Chapter XI. Developments …·599 Building up the Service:The Marine Department:Tonnage Dues and Aids to Navigation:Pilots and Pilotage:The Chapter XX. Beginning of the Post Office .. g91 China-Japan war of 1894-1895:Payment of the indemnity: Franco-Russian loan of 1895,and Anglo-German loans of Chapter XII. 1896 and 1898:Hart and the Likin collectorates:Tariff revision,and Hart's Haikuan Tael gold unit proposal: The Tung Wen Kuan and the von Gumpach Case 399 Inauguration of the Chinese Imperial Post Office 639 Chapter XIII. Chapter XXI. Courts of Joint Investigation:Early Loans secured on the The battle for concessions:Territorial leases:Kiaochow, Customs Revenue:The Burlingame Mission: Treaty Dalny,Port Arthur,Kwangchowwan,Weihaiwei,Kowloon: Revision:The Alcock Convention:The Hongkong Railways:Russia claims the Inspectorship of Customs:Steam Blockade 车。 353 navigation inland:The opening of the West River:Revision of Yangtse regulations:Reform and Palace revolution: Chapter XIV. The Open Door 4 + 68g Coolie Emigration:The Vienna Exhibition:Chinese Steam Shipping:The Chefoo Convention:Hart's proposals for the Chapter XXII. better regulation of commercial relations:The Yamen circular of 1878:Staff questions Decorations 895 The Boxer outbreak:Hart and the Inspectorate during and after the siege of the Peking Legations:The Protocol of Chapter XV. settlement:Indemnity:Native Customs:Tariff revision: Mackay and other treaties:Indemnity,a gold debt:River Legal complications:The Cadiz hulk and the Taiwan false 5. conservancy:Grant in aid of Post Office:Unrest in Service manifest cases:The Page,Logan,and Roberts cases 434 and the succession question:China's foreign trade,1886-1905 730 Chapter XVI. Chapter XXIII. China's tributary States:Korea,Liu Chiu islands:Annam:The beginnings of China's modern navy:Russia and Ili:Gordon's Gold standard for China:Mint:Land Tax:Russo-Japanese war: visit to China in 1880... +40 46? Registration of Trade Marks:West River regulations: Customs Association:Amoy riot:Chang Yen-mao case: Chapter XVII. Appointment of Ministers to control Customs:Creation of 1万… Shui-wu Ch'u:Opening of Manchuria:Hart goes on leave... 790 China's'tributary States:Korea again:War with France: Protocol of Paris:Hart appointed British Minister and Plenipotentiary:China's foreign trade,1864-1885... 499 Chapter XXIV. Chapter XVIII. Appointment of Bredon in temporary charge:Establishment of Customs College:Control of Native opium:Aftermath of China's tributary States:Burmah:Opium once more:Additional the deaths of the Emperor and the Empress Dowager: article to the Chefoo Convention:Hongkong and Macao Appointment of Aglen as Hart's successor:Death of Hart: opium agreements:Bonding …554 His character 839viii Chapter X. Building up the Service: De~ning its status a.n~ scope: Recru~ting its personnel: Relations between CommIssIOners and Chmese Superintenden,ts ' Chapter XI. Building up the Service: The Marine Department: Tonnage Dues and Aids to Navigation: Pilots and Pilotage: The Begiiming of the Post Office Chapter XII. The Tung Wen Kuan and the von Gumpach Case Chapter XIII. Courts of Joint Investigation: Early Loans secured on the , Customs Revenue: The Burlingame Mission: Treaty Revision: The Alcock Convention: The Hongkong Blockade' Chapter XIV. Coolie Emigration: The Vienna Exhibition: Chinese Steam Shipping: The Chefoo Convention: Hart's proposals for the better' regulation of commercial relations: The Yamen 3~~ 353 ,', circular of 1878: Staff· questions Decorations'; 395 Chapter XV. Legal coniplications: The Cadiz hulk and the Taiwan false manifest cases: The Page, Logan, and Roberts cases.". " ',' 434 Chapter XVI. China's tributary States: Korea, Liu Chiu islands: Annam: The ~.:: Qeginnings of China's 'modern navy: Russia and Ili: Gordon's visit to China in 1880 ... Chapter XVII. China's' tributary' States: Korea' again: War with France: Protocol of Paris: Hart appointed British Minister and Plenipotentiary: China's foreign trade, 1864-1885 ... Chapter XVIII. China's tributary States: Burmah: Opium once more: Additional article to the Chefoo Convention: Hongkong and Macao 499 opium agreements:. Bonding . ; 554 ix Chapter XIX. Rumoured resignation of Hart: Chinese officials as traders: Abuses of outward transit trade: Steam navigation on the Upper Yangtse: The. opening of Chungking: Proposed purchase of Macao: Sikkim: The Mason affair: .Postal Developments Chapter XX. China-Japan war. of 1894-1895: Payment of the indemnity: Franco-Russian loan of 1895, and. Anglo-German loans of 1896 and 1898: Hart and the Likin collectorates: Tariff revision, and Hart's Haikuan Tael gold unit proposal: Inauguration of the Chinese Imperial Post Office Chapter XXI. The battle for concessions: Territorial leases: Kiaochow, Dalny, Port Arthur, Kwangchowwan, Weihaiwei, Kowloon: Railways: Russia claims the Inspectorship of Customs: Steam 'navigation inland: The opening of the West River: Revision of Yangtse regulations: Reform and Palace revolution: The Open Door Chapter XXII. The Boxer outbreak: Hart and the Inspectorate during and after the siege of the Peking Legations: The Protocol of settlement: Indemnity: Native Customs: Tariff revision: Mackay and other treaties: Indemnity, a gold debt: River conservancy: Grant in aid of Post Office: Unrest in Service and the succession question: China's foreign trade, 1886"1905 Chapter XXIII. Gold standard for China: Mint: Land Tax: RU'sso-Japanese war: Registration of Trade Marks:' West River regulations: Customs Association: Amoy riot: Chang Yen-mao case: Appointment of Ministers to control Customs: Creation of Shui-wu Ch'u: Opening of Manchuria: Hart goes on leave ... Chapter XXIV. Appointment of Bredon in temporary charge: Establishment of Customs College: Control of Native opium: Aftermath of the deaths of the Emperor and the Empress Dowager: Appointment of Aglen as Hart's successor: Death of Hart: His character 599 790