Originally published in Harvard journal of Asiatic studies, 1939-1941. "The reproduction is photographic... [with] the addition of continuous pagination."
Chinese title at head of title page: Man Qing zhengfu sanjiang 滿清政府三講.
"A selected list of Ch'ing works 1644-1860 on maritime relations": p.178-191.
"Bibliographical notes": p.210-215.
Contents: On the transmission of Ch'ing documents -- On the types and uses of Ch'ing documents -- On the Ch'ing tributary system.

Contents: Foreword -- Introduction: China, from empire to nation -- The Opium War -- The Taiping rebellion -- The period of imitation of western methods -- The reform movement: the first step -- The reaction to the reform movement -- Revival of the reform movement -- The struggle between the revolutionary and the constitutional movements -- Revolutionary versus constitutional movement, 1908 to 1911 -- The overthrow of the Manchu government and the establishment of the Republic of China -- The struggle between the Kuomintang and the Peiyang military clique -- Monarchical and antimonarchical movements -- Internal dissension of the Peiyang military clique, and the war lords in South China -- A federal government movement and melee among the war lords -- Reorganization of the Kuomintang and the end of the Peiyang war lords.