with a foreword

by

Carol G.S. Tan

Hong Kong University Press14/F Hing Wai Centre7 Tin Wan Praya RoadAberdeenHong Kong

© Hong Kong University Press 2010

First published in 1989 by Oxford University PressThis paperback edition published by Hong Kong University Press in 2010

ISBN 978-988-8028-92-4

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CONTENTS

Plates viii

Foreword by Carol G.S. Tan ix

Preface to the Paperback Edition xv

Preface to the Original Edition xix

1 Good Abilities (1858–1879) 1

2 A Rigorous Training (1879–1884) 14

3 Protector of Chinese (1884–1889) 34

4 A Family Man (1889–1895) 54

5 Triumphs and Tribulations (1895–1898) 76

6 New Territories, New Horizons (1898–1902) 93

7 Breaking Down the Barriers (1902–1904) 110

8 Good Companions (1904–1906) 128

9 The Scholar Collector (1907–1912) 147

10 A Thankless Task (1911–1918) 168

11 Lingering on (1918–1921) 186

12 The Confucian Comes Home (1921–1937) 200

Notes 210

Selected Bibliography 238

Index 249

PLATES

The photographs are reproducted with the consent of the copyright holders, The Merchant Company Education Board.

(between pp. 114 and 115)

1 Government House, Weihaiwei, 19182 Queues for water during the water famine of 1901, Hong

Kong 3 James Stewart Lockhart in the Temple of Confucius, Qufu,

19034 James Stewart Lockhart with Duke Kong and Chinese officials

outside the Kong Mansion at the Temple of Confucius, Qufu, 1903

5 James Stewart Lockhart visiting the Governor of Shandong Province at Jinan, 1903

6 The captain of the Jing Hai with his family, 19037 The City of Boshan, seen by Stewart Lockhart and his party

during the visit to the Governor of Shandong, 19038 Reginald Johnston with the portrait of King Edward VII

before its presentation to Duke Kong in 19049 The bund and shore, Port Edward, c. 1908–191010 New roads in Weihai City, c. 192011 A family in a shenzi, Weihaiwei, 190912 The Commissioner’s picnic at Weihaiwei, 191313 The 21st and 22nd contingents of the Chinese Labour Corps

preparing for embarkation from Weihaiwei, 14 May 191714 James and Mary Stewart Lockhart in Weihaiwei, c. 191615 Reginald Johnston in the Forbidden City, Beijing, 192216 Yao Baoshu, A Solitary among the Hills, 191117 Yao Yi, Tigers and Pine Tree. Bought in Weihaiwei, March

191418 Lan Fou Nong, Bamboo. Nineteeth century19 Lin Xi Tang, Moon Rising above Bamboo, 1837