Transcriber's Note: Inconsistent hyphenation, capitalization, diacritics and spelling in the original document have been preserved. Obvious typographical errors have been corrected. Index inconsistencies with the text have been regularized with the text. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. THE ENGLISHMAN IN CHINA CHAP. XXIII.: Tsze-kung asked, saying, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." [Illustration: Signature J. Thomson, photo. Walker & Cockerell, ph. sc.] THE ENGLISHMAN IN CHINA DURING THE VICTORIAN ERA AS ILLUSTRATED IN THE CAREER OF SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK, K.C.B., D.C.L. MANY YEARS CONSUL AND MINISTER IN CHINA AND JAPAN BY ALEXANDER MICHIE AUTHOR OF 'THE SIBERIAN OVERLAND ROUTE,' 'MISSIONARIES IN CHINA,' ETC. VOL. II. WILLIAM BLACKWOOD AND SONS EDINBURGH AND LONDON MDCCCC CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. CHAP. PAGE XIX. JAPAN-- I. THE TREATIES AND THEIR NEGOTIATORS 1 II. THE OPERATION OF THE TREATIES 12 III. ASSASSINATION PERIOD, 1860-61 34 IV. NEGOTIATIONS AND RENEWED ASSASSINATIONS, 1862-64 44 V. THE TYCOON'S DILEMMA 60 VI. THE CRISIS 75 VII. THE BIRTH OF NEW JAPAN 92 VIII. THE DIPLOMATIC BODY--TSUSHIMA 104 IX. TRADE AND TRADERS 115 XX. SIR RUTHERFORD ALCOCK IN PEKING, 1865-1869-- I. THE BRITISH LEGATION 130 II. FOREIGN LIFE IN PEKING 138 III. THE FOREIGN CUSTOMS UNDER THE PEKING CONVENTION 156 IV. EMIGRATION 168 V. KOREA 175 XXI. THE REVISION OF THE TREATY-- I. PREPARATION 180 II. THE BURLINGAME MISSION 192 III. CHINESE OUTRAGES--YANGCHOW AND FORMOSA 198 IV. REVISION NEGOTIATIONS AND CONCLUSION 210 XXII. MISSIONARY PROBLEM--TIENTSIN MASSACRE OF 1870 223 XXIII. THE EXPANSION OF INTERCOURSE-- I. RUSSIA AND FRANCE ADVANCING 250 II. JAPAN AGGRESSIVE 255 III. KOREA OPENED 256