Author | Moser, Michael J.Moser, Yeone Wei-Chih |
Place | Hong Kong 香港 |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Collection | Ricci Institute Library |
Edition | |
Language | English, Chinese |
Type | Book |
Series | |
Shelf | Admin. Office |
Call Number | JX1838.A58 P456 1993 |
Description | xiii, 158 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm. |
Note | Michael J. Moser and Yeone Wei-Chih Moser. 1. Foreigners in the Middle Kingdom. 2. The early legations. 3. Peking and the foreign community in the nineteenth century. 4. The siege of the legations. 5. The aftermath. 6. The Protocol of 1901. 7. Rebuilding the Legation Quarter. 8. The legations and their world: 1901-1949. 9. Postscript. Endpaper maps: Legation Quarter in the 19th century, Legation Quarter in 1915.
"Foreigners Within the Gates recreates the blossoming, upheaval, and decline of this precariously placed 'little Europe,' from its establishment in the late 1900s, through the violence of the Boxer rebellion, the Japanese occupation of the 1930s, and the Legation Quarter's disappearance in post-war Peking."--dustjacket. |
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ISBN | 019585702X |
LCCN | 92-39882 |