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Preface
Introduction
List of Illustrations
1 ‘Watch Therefore for Ye Knows Not’
Birmingham, 1828–1841
2 ‘A Sharp Intelligent Lad’
Macao – Hong Kong – Shanghai – Nanjing, 1841–184
3 ‘Not Sufficient to Satisfy Me’
Zhoushan (Chusan) – Guangzhou (Canton), 1842–1843
4 ‘Here I Am Now Perfectly Alone’
Amoy (Xiamen), 1844–1845
5 ‘A Continuous Settled Life Has No Charms for Me’
Fuzhou – Shanghai, 1845–184
6 ‘I Saw a Good Deal’
India – Britain, 1849–1851
7 ‘I Distinctly Declined to Accede’
Formosa – Guangzhou, 1851–1854
8 ‘Hasty Love-making’
Bangkok – London – Bangkok, 1855–1856
9 ‘It Is the Cause of the West Against the East’
Guangzhou, 1856–1857
10 ‘Never Sparing Himself in Any Way’
Guangzhou, 1857–1860
11 ‘The Executioner Stood by with Uplifted Sword’
Beijing, 1860
12 ‘I Do Not at All Like Being in a Great Man’s Train’
Nanjing – Hankou (Wuhan) – Shanghai, 1860–1862
13 Sir Harry Parkes
Britain, 1862–1864
14 ‘The Drudgery of the Service’
Shanghai, 1864–1865
15 ‘The Appointment is Particularly Gratifying to Me’
Yokohama, 1865–1866
16 ‘The Most Superior Japanese
Osaka – West Coast – Nagasaki – Mt. Fuji, 1867
17 The Meiji Restoration
Osaka – Kyoto – Tokyo, 1868
18 ‘We of Course Hope for Improvement’
Tokyo, 1869–1871
19 ‘This is Becoming Civilised with a Vengeance
Britain,1871–1873
20 ‘I Arrived Too Late’
Tokyo – Britain, 1874–1881
21 ‘I Am Deeply Sensible of the Services You Have Rendered’
Tokyo, 1882–188
22 ‘The Last Semi-civilised State’
Seoul, 1883
23 ‘I Can Find No Rest’
Beijing, 1884–1885
Epilogue
Bibliography
Acknowledgements
Notes
Index