Treaties Between the Empire of China and Foreign Powers, Together With Regulations for the Conduct of Foreign Trade, &C (Classic Reprint)

The publication of the present collection of the Treaties -and other engagements under which the trade and relations of foreign countries with the Chinese Empire are conducted has been undertaken in order to meet a requirement long expressed and widely recognized. Since 1861, when the Treaties and Conventions concluded in 1858-1860 with Grreat Britain, France, the United States, and Bussia were issued from the publishing office of the present volume, no attempt has been made to bring together, or indeed to render available for general purposes of reference, the greater portion of the various Treaties andE egulations which have been successively agreed upon during the last sixteen or seventeen years. A few of these instruments have been separately printed after negotiation, for semi-private use ;others have seen the light in the columns of newspapers, and others again have been recorded in European publications such as theB ritish andF oreign State Papers, compiled in London by Mr. Edward Hertslet, or in the Archives Diplomatiques, the corresponding Parisian work ;but for all general purposes, they have remained virtually inaccessible. The material difficulties in the way of remedying this deficiency having been removed by the enterprise of the publisher of the present volume, a collection has now been made of all the international agreements hitherto concluded by the Chinese Q-ovemment, which are printed either in full, or, where circumstances have rendered this admissible, in an abridged form.
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