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THIS is an interesting book of personal reminiscences during a long official residence in China. Mr. Parker served in the consular service for many years at a time when our relations with the Flowery Land were even more precarious and uncertain than they are to-day, and it is interesting to observe how under these conditions, and with Sir Harry Parkes as our Minister at Peking, a spirit of self-reliance was engendered among all holding authority at the outlying ports. The riots directed against foreigners which are now occasional were chronic in the ’eighties, and Mr. Parker came into a fair share of them. Being ever ready to accept responsibility, he in most cases undertook the defence of his countrymen during the acute stages of the crises, and when the hurly-burly was over arranged with the local authorities for the necessary punishment of offenders and compensation for the destruction of property. As he remarks, after describing a serious outbreak at Wênchou,
John Chinaman and a Few Others.
By E. H. Parker. Pp. xx + 380. (London: John Murray, 1901.) Price 8s. net.
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John Chinaman and a Few Others . Nature 65, 436–437 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065436a0
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