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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), China. (search)
the occupation by the European powers of Chinese territory under various cessions in the years immeror and the Empress Dowager had fled and the Chinese troops were surrounded in the inner city. Fithe foreign powers to despatch their troops to China to the end of protecting the lives of their reress the regrets of his Majesty the Emperor of China and of the Chinese government for the assassinring an inscription in the Latin, German, and Chinese languages, expressing the regrets of the Emperor of China for the murder. II. A. The severest punishment of the persons designated in the iatory monument to be erected by the imperial Chinese government in every foreign or international s, companies, and individuals, as well as for Chinese who during the late occurrences have suffered of their being in the service of foreigners. China to adopt financial measures acceptable to the e object of facilitating them. XII. The Chinese government to determine in what manner to ref[16 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), China and the powers. (search)
ritish owned, and carried in British ships to Chinese ports, yet its place of origin is none the let of the United States in the foreign trade of China is not only an increasing one, but is also a pts in the Far East; but this is not the case. China is an almost untapped market. It is a vast co their share in the prospective development of China as a whole interfered with? There is no doubtto a policy of drift. The effete and corrupt Chinese government has been so severely shaken that, to destroy the present governmental system in China, but how is it to be reconstructed? What willions, and a capacity to land 200,000 troops in China at any moment. Apart from these two, the Unit motives, but to guarantee the independence of China and the maintenance of a fair field and no favound lines as the imperial maritime customs of China is established. Observation of recent evengress, for the benefit of their own people, as well as for the benefit of China, and of the world. [34 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chinese-American reciprocity. (search)
rongs. Transport all the people of Chile into China and they would fill only a city of the first cs a wide range of uses in all parts of the Chinese Empire, and it is almost impossible for the suppltion which comprises the eighteen provinces of China proper, extending from the Great Wall to Gatd smelted. In short, the natural resources of China, both in variety and quantity, are so great thn Hankow, the great distributing centre of central China, and Canton, the great distributing centrextent is this idea current among foreigners in China that some years ago an American missionary in irable to keep out the objectionable class of Chinese, by all means let them do so. Let them make ted. It aimed to provide for the exclusion of Chinese laborers only, while freely admitting all othding exists in the United States in regard to Chinese questions. There is a current fear that if aas great scarcity of laborers. Agents went to China and induced a considerable number of Chinese t[54 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chinese exclusion acts. (search)
Chinese exclusion acts. The immigration of Chinese laborers to the Pacific coast of the UnitedChinese laborers to the Pacific coast of the United States began soon after the discovery of gold in California in 1849. Within a few years their inf regulating or restricting the immigration of Chinese laborers, but it was not until 1879 that Congting treaty relations between this country and China. In 1881 a treaty was effected and ratified between the United States and China, which provided that the government of the former should have egulate, but not prohibit, the importation of Chinese laborers. Chinese merchants, travellers, andChinese merchants, travellers, and their servants, teachers, and students in this country were to enjoy the same rights as those vouc2, however, Congress passed an act suspending Chinese immigration for a period of ten years. To er a period not exceeding twelve months. Other Chinese persons—as students, travellers, merchants, s at once felt in the decreased immigration of Chinese laborers, which was now practically prohibite[1 more...]
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Chinese exclusion bill, veto of (search)
Chinese exclusion bill, veto of See Arthur, Chester Alan.
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil service, United States colonial. (search)
the University of Leyden there are professors of colonial and Mohammedan law, the Japanese and Chinese languages, of ethnography, and lecturers on the Sunda languages, on Malayan, Persian, and Turkiord, there are teachers of Hindustani, Persian, Tamil, Telugu, Marathi, Bengalese, Turkish, and Chinese, Indian law and Indian history. In Cambridge, nine courses of a practical character are provirn Oriental languages in which instruction is given in Burmese, Arabic, Japanese, modern Greek, Chinese, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Armenian, and Swahili. Candidates for the Indian service in their provided in Arabic, written and colloquial, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Armenian, modern Greek, Chinese, Japanese, Hindustani, Roumanian, Annamese, Malayan, and Malagasy, in the geography, history anrmans and of Orientals, who teach their native tongues, and includes instructors in Arabic (2), Chinese (2), Japanese (2), Gujarati, Persian, Hindustani, Syrian Arabic, Maroccan Arabic, Egyptian Arab
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Civil War in the United States. (search)
Donelson by Confederates repulsed.— 6. The Emancipation Proclamation published in Louisiana.—7. Mutiny of the 100th Illinois Regiment. Confederates declare the blockade at Galveston and Sabine Pass opened.—S. Circulation of the Chicago Times suppressed.—10. Official denial that the blockade at Charleston had been raised.—11. Confederates attempt to assassinate General Banks on his way to the Opera-house in New Orleans.—12. National currency bill passes the Senate. the Jacob Bell, from China, with a cargo of tea worth $1,000,000, captured and burned by the Confederate cruiser Florida. —14. National cavalry defeated at Annandale, Va.—15. Confederates defeated at Arkadelphia, Ark.—16. Conscription bill passed the United States Senate.—20. National currency bill passed the United States House of Representatives.—23. United States Senate authorized the suspension of the privilege of Habeas corpus. —25. English-Confederate steamer Peterhoff captured by the Vande
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Columbus, Christopher 1435-1536 (search)
o the learned Florentine cosmographer, Paul Toscanelli, who gave him an encouraging answer, and sent him a map constructed partly from Ptolemy's and partly from descriptions of Farther India by Marco Polo, a Venetian traveller who told of Cathay (China) and Zipango (Japan) in the twelfth century. In 1477, Columbus sailed northwest from Portugal beyond Iceland to lat. 73°, when pack-ice turned him back; and it is believed that he went southward as far as the coast of Guinea. Unable to fit out , mostly caravels. He was not allowed to refit at his own colony of Hispaniola or Santo Domingo, and he sailed to the western verge of the Gulf of Mexico in search of a passage through what he always believed to be Zipango (Japan) to Cathay, or China. After great sufferings, he returned to Spain in November, 1504, old and infirm, to find the good Queen dead, and to experience the bitterness of neglect from Ferdinand, her husband. His claims were rejected by the ungrateful monarch, and he li
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Commerce of the United States. (search)
India, with 300,000,000 of population and 22,000 miles of railway, has seen her commerce increase nearly 60 per cent. in the past twenty-five years, while that of China, with 400,000,000 of people, but no railways, has increased about 30 per cent. in that time. In the meanwhile steam had also revolutionized the carrying-trade oched the United States fully thirty days after its occurrence, while Havana is to-day less than forty-eight hours from New York. The first vessel from New York to China occupied fifteen months on its round trip, and a voyage to the Orient, before the introduction of steam, occupied from eight to twelve months for the round trip, wt commercial cities of our inland seas; a great railway system will stretch from South America to Bering Straits, thence down the eastern coast of Siberia, through China, Siam, Burmah, across India, Persia, Arabia, past the pyramids of Egypt to the westernmost point of Africa, where only 1,600 miles of ocean will intervene to preve
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Conger, Edwin Hurd 1843- (search)
Conger, Edwin Hurd 1843- Diplomatist; born in Knox county, Ill., March 7, 1843; graduated at Lombard University, Galesburg, Ill., in 1862; served in the 102d Illinois Regiment in the Civil War from 1862-65; and was brevetted major. After the war he entered the Albany Law School, where he graduated in 1866; practised law in Galesburg, Ill.; and after 1868 was enagaged in banking and stockraising in Iowa. He was State treasurer Edwin Hurd Conger. of Iowa in 1882-85; member of Congress in 1885-91; and minister to Brazil in 1891-95, being reappointed to the latter post in 1897. On Jan. 12, 1898, he was transferred to China, and served in Peking during the critical days of the Boxer uprising in 1900, and the subsequent negotiations for peace and the restoration of order in that country. See China.
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