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ROCKHILL, WILLIAM WOODVILLE - Inquiry Into the Population of China

Title: Inquiry Into the Population of China
Description: City OF Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1904. Paperback. This is trade sized pamphlet with cardstock covers and a side stapled spine. The covers have noticeable wear, some water spots and iron residue from the staples. There are several edge tears and a couple of chips, especially to the spine ends. The text pages are generally clean, but have some light toning and some curling to both corners. This is a monograph - reprinted from the Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections (vol. 47). "William Woodville Rockhill (May 1, 1854 – December 8, 1914) was a United States diplomat, best known as the author of the U. S.' s Open Door Policy for China and as the first American to learn to speak Tibetan." "With the outbreak of the Boxer Rebellion, U. S. Secretary of State John Hay, who knew little of the Far East, turned to Rockhill for guidance. As such, Rockhill drafted a memorandum that spelled out the famous Open Door Policy towards China; this memorandum was circulated to Russia, Britain, Germany, France, Japan, and Italy and in March 1900, Secretary Hay announced that all the Great Powers had signed off on the Open Door Policy. Rockhill was then despatched as President McKinley's special envoy, where he represented the U. S. In the Conference of Ministers that followed the ending of the Boxer Rebellion. During the negotiations surrounding the Boxer Protocol, Rockhill argued against full war reparations, instead encouraging the Great Powers to settle for a lump sum of $333 million in reparations to be divided amongst the Powers in proportion to their expenses incurred in intervening in China. " (from Wikipedia). Fair .

Keywords: China William Woodville Rockhill China Policy Population Population Tallys Census Smithsonian Institute

Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: S. Howlett-West Books
- Book number: 37055

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