THE

BURLINGAME MISSION:

A POLITICAL DISCLOSURE,

SUPPORTED BY

OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS, MOSTLY UNPUBLISHED.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED:

VARIOUS PAPERS AND DISCOURSES

ON

THE CLAIM OF THE EMPEROR OF CHINA TO UNIVERSAL SUPREMACY; THE TRUE
NATURE OF ACTUAL DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN CHINA AND WESTERN
POWERS; THE POSITION AND INFLUENCE IN CHINA OF ROBERT HART, ESQ.,
AS CONFIDENTIAL ADVISER OF THE TSUNG-LI YAMEN; THE HART-ALCOCK
CONVENTION; THE DISPERSION OF THE LAY-OSBORN FLOTILLA; THE "NEW
CHINESE UNIVERSITY"; THE POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES IN CHINA; THE
NEW CHINA POLICY OF ENGLAND; THE WESTERN POLICY, AND THE DIPLOMACY,
OF THE CHINESE GOVERNMENT; THE MASSACRE OF TIENTSIN; THE
CHUNG-'HO MISSION; THE AUDIENCE QUESTION;

AND

THE COMING WAR.

BY

JOHANNES VON GUMPACH.

WITH TWO ILLUSTRATIONS.

SHANGHAI, LONDON, AND NEWYORK.

1872.

[All rights reserved.]

FARVARDY

JUL 25 1903

H.J. Coolidge.

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