TY - BOOK ID - 77893291 TI - H.B. Morse, Customs Commissioner and historian of China AU - Fairbank, John King AU - Coolidge, Martha Henderson AU - Smith, Richard J PY - 1995 SN - 0813161800 0813171040 9780813171043 0813119340 9780813119342 PB - Lexington University Press of Kentucky DB - UniCat KW - Customs administration KW - Finance, Public KW - Tariff KW - Officials and employees KW - Biography. KW - Morse, Hosea Ballou, KW - Ma-shih, KW - Morse, H. B. KW - Ma, Shih, KW - China KW - Foreign relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893291 AB - Hosea Ballou Morse (1855-1934) sailed to China in 1874, and for the next thirty-five years he labored loyally in the Imperial Chinese Maritime Customs Service, becoming one of its most able commissioners and acquiring a deep knowledge of China's economy and foreign relations. After his retirement in 1909, Morse devoted himself to scholarship. He pioneered in the Western study of China's foreign relations, weaving from the tangled threads of the Ch'ing dynasty's foreign affairs several seminal interpretive histories, most notably his three-volume magnum opus, The International Relations of the ER -