The Burlingame mission

a political disclosure, supported by official documents, mostly unpublished.To which are added: various papers and discourses on the claim of the Emperor of China to universal supremacy; the true nature of actual diplomatic relations between China and western powers; the position and influence in China of Robert Hart, esq., as confidential adviser of the Tsung-li Yamen; the Hart-Alcock convention; the dispersion of the Lay-Osborn flotilla; the "New Chinese University"; the policy of the United States in China; the new China policy of England; the western policy, and the diplomacy of the Chinese government; the massacre of Tien-tsin; the Chung-'ho mission; the audience question; and the coming war. --.

by Johannes von Gumpach