Allied Negotiations and the Dismemberment of Germany
In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 585-595
ISSN: 1461-7250
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In: Journal of contemporary history, Band 16, Heft 3, S. 585-595
ISSN: 1461-7250
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 663-690
ISSN: 0026-749X
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 725-736
ISSN: 0026-749X
In: Journal of European studies, Band 4, Heft 1, S. 1-18
ISSN: 1740-2379
In: (Colonial research publications 19)
In: Far East economic series no. 1
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 663-689
ISSN: 1469-8099
There was nothing unusual in an indemnity per se. Indeed, an indemnity could be seen as a forward step in European civilization, replacing the regime of indiscriminate plunder which preceded it—although it could equally be argued that in their pacification of north China following the razing of the Siege of the Legations in 1900 the Allies, through their looting of the Tientsin and Peking areas in disregard of recently agreed definitions, had acquired both indemnity and plunder. Indeed the chaos was such that among the first financial and contradictory consequences of the post-Boxer period was Sir Robert Hart's successful arrangement with the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation of a loan of Ts10,000 a month for the chief Chinese negotiator, Prince Ch'ing [I-K'uang], on the one hand, while in Shansi the Protestant Church refused to accept any indemnity for the Christian lives lost; consequently the authorities voluntarily agreed to establish a University on Western lines, to be maintained by the authorities, and to operate under joint control for ten years at the annual cost of Ts 50,000.
In: Modern Asian studies, Band 40, Heft 3, S. 725-736
ISSN: 1469-8099
Seal up the mouth of outrage for a while,Till we can clear these ambiguities,And know their spring, their head, their true descent…And let mischance be clove to patience.–Shakespeare, Romeo and JulietSinim. A name…taken by many scholars as meaning China under the name Ts'in, but modern opinion mostly regards it as referring to Syene…–Couling, Encyclopaedia Sinica (1917)
In: Business history, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 138-140
ISSN: 1743-7938
In: American political science review, Band 70, Heft 3, S. 1005-1006
ISSN: 1537-5943
In: Pacific affairs, Band 44, Heft 2, S. 265
ISSN: 0030-851X
In: The Economic Journal, Band 65, Heft 260, S. 719