xi ILLUSTRATIONS Page Sir Robert Hart in 19o8 (after McKelvey's FRONTISPIECE BIBLIOGRAPHY 868 portrait in the Great Hall of Queen's University） The Burning of the Factories at Canton ..Facing page 35 Appendices 8g1 The Opium Fleet at Lintin;with a "fast (1)China's sea-borne Foreign Trade:Import and Export,1863-1910: dragon"opium-smuggling boat in the Values and Revenue. foreground … 39 ()National percentages in China's sea-borne Foreign Trade. The Canton Custom House in the early ()List of Treaty Ports in chronological order. days of last century... 66 (4)Personnel of Chinese Customs Service,1875,1885,185,1905,1915. The Factories at Canton early in the Nineteenth Century... ” 66 (5)Chinese characters of romanised names and terms used in text. Shanghai Bund in the early fifties of last century 89 INDEX 9o9 Horatio Nelson Lay,C.B. 1g6 ERRATA 949 Robert Hart in 1866... 136 Prince Kung:First President of the Tsungli Yamen 149 Queen's College,Belfast,in Hart's time .. 165 An Encounter with Chinese Pirates 237 A.E.Hippisley 368 Sir John McLeavy Brown 368 H.E.the Viceroy Li Hung-chang 465 The Gunboat "Delta" 474 Hart in his“den,”Peking,.r8gr 6g8 H.E.Tong Shao-yi … 628 H.E.the Viceroy Chang Chih-tung 71g Francis A.Aglen .. 850 Hart's Statue on the Shanghai Bund 865 Panels on pedestal of Hart's statue … 866x BIBLIOGRAPHY Appendices Page 868 (1) China's sea-borne Foreign Trade: Import and Export, ,1863-1910: Values and Revenue. (2) National percentages in China's sea-borne Foreign Trade. (3) List of Treaty Ports in chronological order. (4) Personnel of Chinese Customs Service, 1875, 1885, 1895, 1905, 1915. (5) Chinese characters of romanised names and terms used in text. INDEX 90 9 ERRATA. 949 Xl ILLUSTRA TIONS Sir Robert Hart in I90B (afte'!' McKelvey's FRONTISPIECE portrait iri the Great Hall of Queen's· University) The Burning of the Fa~tories at Canton ... Facing page 35 The Opium Fleet at Lintin; with a "fast dmgon" opium-smuggling boat zn the foreground The Canton Custom House in the early days of last cent1J,ry ... The Fact01'ies at Canton early zn the Nineteenth CentU1Y ... Shanghai Bund in the early fifties of last centU1Y Homtio Nelson Lay, C.B. Robert Hart in IB66 Prince Kung: First President of the Tsungli Yamen '" ... ... . .. . Queen's College, Belfast, in Hart's time An Encounter with Chinese Pirates A. E. Hippisley Sir ]ohnMcLeavy BTOwn H.E. the ViceTOY Li Hung-chang The Guhboat "Delta" Hart in his" den," Peking, IB9I H.E. Tong Shao-yi H.E. the ViceTOY Chang Chih-tung Fmncis A. Aglen Hart's Statue on the Shanghai Bund Panels on pedestal of Hart's statue ...... , 39 66 66 89 474 712 865 866