Ying-wan Cheng

Postal Communication in China and Its Modernization, 1860–1896

Provides a history of the modernization of the Chinese postal service, with chapters on the problems of modernizing postal communication, the Ch'ing o...

Postal Communication in China and Its Modernization, 1860-1896

Preliminary Material -- The Problems of Modernizing Postal Communication -- The Ch'ing Official Post -- The Letter Agencies -- Foreign Postal Establis...

Augustine Heard and Company, 1858-1862

American Merchants in China

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