{"product_id":"9781108045834","title":"Narrative of the Earl of Elgin's Mission to China and Japan, in the Years 1857, '58, '59 (Cambridge Library Collection - East and South-east Asian History)","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1857 Laurence Oliphant (1829-88), lawyer, journalist, diplomat and sometime spy, later Liberal MP, satirical novelist, and, for a time, adherent of the religious mystic Thomas Harris, became private secretary to Lord Elgin (1811-63), accompanying him to China, and thence to Japan, on a mission to protect and extend British trading interests in the region. Oliphant's 1859 account of the trip was published in two volumes. Volume 2 deals with the negotiation of the Anglo-Japanese Treaty of Yedo, the legalisation of the Chinese opium trade and combat with Chinese insurgents at Nankin. The work is a mixture of travel narrative - Oliphant had previously written about his travels in Nepal and in the Crimea (also reissued in this series) - and political analysis. It provides both an informative account of the war from a privileged vantage point and a window upon Oliphant's own colourful career.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45412567973967,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":2555.0,"currency_code":"TWD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/9174\/2287\/files\/9781108045834-1.jpg?v=1780448793","url":"https:\/\/kinokuniya.com.tw\/products\/9781108045834","provider":"Books Kinokuniya Taiwan","version":"1.0","type":"link"}