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MINISTER TO THE MANDARINS: CHARLES DENBY AND THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICA'S CHINA POLICY

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1977
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Until the turn of the twentieth century American policy in China followed the lead of Great Britain. Independence, as stated in the Open Door Notes, was essentially a restatement of the most-favored-nation policy in American, rather than British, terms. Earlier studies have stressed the role of presidents, secretaries of state, intellectuals, missionaries, and business interests in the formulation of policy. This thesis is an effort to shift the focus to the role of the bureaucracy in development of such policies with particular emphasis in this instance upon Charles Denby, who was Minister to China, 1885-1898. It concludes that, while others rotated in office or had to focus their attention on other problems, such men on the scene as Denby were able to learn the standard operating procedures and manipulate events to suit their plans, often independent of the desires of other American business, religious, and governmental leaders.
Title: MINISTER TO THE MANDARINS: CHARLES DENBY AND THE EMERGENCE OF AMERICA'S CHINA POLICY.
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Name(s): PATTON, JOHN R.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Dow, Tsung-I, Thesis advisor
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1977
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 134 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Until the turn of the twentieth century American policy in China followed the lead of Great Britain. Independence, as stated in the Open Door Notes, was essentially a restatement of the most-favored-nation policy in American, rather than British, terms. Earlier studies have stressed the role of presidents, secretaries of state, intellectuals, missionaries, and business interests in the formulation of policy. This thesis is an effort to shift the focus to the role of the bureaucracy in development of such policies with particular emphasis in this instance upon Charles Denby, who was Minister to China, 1885-1898. It concludes that, while others rotated in office or had to focus their attention on other problems, such men on the scene as Denby were able to learn the standard operating procedures and manipulate events to suit their plans, often independent of the desires of other American business, religious, and governmental leaders.
Identifier: 13855 (digitool), FADT13855 (IID), fau:10683 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters
Thesis (M.A.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1977.
Subject(s): Denby, Charles,--1830-1904
Eastern question (Far East)
United States--Foreign relations--China
China--Foreign relations--United States
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