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⁹ I may be a slow reader. Although I had previously read Jen's Ch'uan-shih and other books on the Taiping, I had to spend one whole week of uninterrupted reading to finish Jen's new book. Admittedly, having to make notes as I went along did not help my speed either.

¹⁰ I should like to remark briefly that the book is divided into 3 parts, 23 chapters and a total of 544 headings, which is not a bad way of dealing with excessive details. However, it is a mistake, I think to divide the bibliography into 7 sections and 16 subsections, with the contents of each subsection arranged in alphabetical order. Since one can never be absolutely certain into what category a book falls, particularly a romanized name of a Chinese book which appears in a footnote, one will experience much frustration when using the bibliography.

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¹⁴ The chapter on rebellions in Kwangtung in this period has been omitted from the Ch'üan-shih when the author was condensing his work.

¹⁵ Cf. the tremendous technical and financial difficulties Tseng Kuo-fan experienced when he tried to construct a fleet for his Hsiang Army. With great eagerness he ‘sought out every Kwangtung naval officer … for systematic questioning on the practical aspects of ship-building’ (p. 224).

¹⁶ This is not to say that the powers actually suppressed the rebellion. By the time they intervened, Tseng Kuo-fan had gained the upper hand and the fall of the Taipings was only a matter of time. Foreign intervention, however, accelerated the downfall.

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¹⁸ Canton Archive 253.3.99. Deposition of a captured Taiping spy (1850). See next note.

¹⁹ A more detailed description and analysis of these events may be found in my forthcoming book, entitled Inner Discord, Outer Threat. The Life and Times of Yeh Ming-ch'en, 1807–59 (Cambridge University Press).Google Scholar

²⁰ Cf. the uncompromising attitude of Yeh Ming-ch'en as described in the book mentioned in the previous note. See also the intransigence of the emperor in my forthcoming article entitled ‘Sir John Bowring and the Question of Treaty Revision in China’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester (probably in vol. 57, no. 2, 1975).

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