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Book SynopsisWilliam Nelson Lovatt in Late Qing China: War, Maritime Customs, and Treaty Ports,1860-1904 looks at the late Qing dynasty through the eyes of a British-American who spent most of his adult life in China in the late nineteenth century, fighting in four wars, serving in its maritime customs service, and living in eleven different treaty ports. It is based on the newly-discovered journals, correspondence, and photographs of William Nelson Lovatt (1838-1904), who first arrived in China in 1860 as a sergeant in the British army to fight in the Second Opium War, and who then proceeded to fight against the Taiping in Shanghai, against the Nian in Tianjin, and finally against the Japanese in Taiwan, providing an inside look at those four conflicts. Joining the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs Service in 1863 under Inspector-General Sir Robert Hart, Lovatt provides a rare insider look at the operation of Hart and the Maritime Customs Service for during the four decades he served. Because he w
Table of ContentsChapter One: Entering China: The Siege of Beijing, 1860 Chapter Two: Fighting the Taiping: Shanghai, 1860-1862 Chapter Three: Entering the Customs Service: Hankou and Zhenjiang, 1863-1865 Chapter Four: Training the Cavalry and Taming the Nian Chapter Five: Minnesota, Jiujiang and Taiwan, 1869-1877 Chapter Six: Wuhu, 1877-1878 Chapter Seven: Return to Hankou, 1878-1881 Chapter Eight: Resignation: Tianjin, 1881-1883 Chapter Nine: Commissioner in Korea: 1883-1888 Chapter Ten: Return to China on Demotion: Fuzhou, 1888-1889 Chapter Eleven: Hoping for a Promotion: Jiujiang, 1889-1890 Chapter Twelve: Opening a New Customs Station: Chongqing, 1890-94 Chapter Thirteen: The Final Decade: Yichang, Guangzhou, Jiujiang, and Hankou, 1894-1904 Chapter Fourteen: Epilogue: 1904-1914
