Throne and Mandarins: China's Search for a Policy During the Sino-French Controversy, 1880-1885

by Lloyd E. Eastman

This study of the policy-making process in China during the Sino-French controversy of 1880-1885 adds a new dimension to our understanding of China's response to the West in the nineteenth century. The implicit threat presented by French efforts to extend her control into northern Vietnam was the catalyst in Chinese policy decisions, and Lloyd Eastman traces the dramatic process by which the problem was eventually resolved. Analyzing the complicated...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674891155
• ISBN13: 9780674891159
• Release Date: January 1967
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.6"