CURCQ1 Curtis, Lionel: THE CAPITAL QUESTION OF CHINA. London, 1932. xix, 322 pp. 4 foldout maps. 22x14 cm. Cloth. GBP 45.00 The book opens with chapters on the Tartars, the opening of the sea routes by Spain and Portugal, Japanese and Chinese contacts with Europe. The work then focuses on the period from the mid-19th century onwards - the Opium Trade and the unequal treaties, the admission of foreign ministers to Peking, the Taiping Rebellion and its aftermath, the opening of the Pacific, foreign territorial seizures in China, The Boxer Rebellion and a detailing of events from then on into the 1930s. The chapters on the Boxer Rebellion and Legation Quarter are of much interest and include a foldout map of the legation quarter of Peking. Other foldout maps show Shanghai, Manchuria and Mongolia, China and Japan. A good copy. Subjects: Beijing Foreigners in Out of stock, as of: 18/10/2009 Was item 67 in printed List 153. Record produced by Hanshan Tang Books, www.hanshan.com.