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HENRY JAMES LETHBRIDGE

Report of the Commission to inquire into the existence of insanitary properties in the Colony, Hong Kong, Noronha & Co., 1898.

'Report of the Commission to Enquire into the Public Works Department', Hong Kong Sessional Papers, no. 13 of 1902, pp. 125-368,

REVIEWS IN THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ASIATIC SOCIETY

1927, pp. 643-4

1928, pp. 648-9

1929, pp. 197-8

1929, pp. 410-12

1929, p. 944

1930, p. 487

1931, pp. 677-8

1931, pp. 872-3

1932, pp. 672-5

1932, pp. 1025-6

1934, pp. 151-3

1935, pp. 189-90

1935, p. 395-6

Herbert H. Gowen and Josef Washington Hall, An Outline History of China.

Louise Wallace Hackney, Guide-Posts to Chinese Painting.

A.E. Grantham. Hills of Blue. A Picture Roll of Chinese History from Far Beginnings to the Death of Ch'ien Lung, A.D. 1799.

V.A. Riasanovsky, The Modern Civil Law of China (part 1).

Rodney Gilbert, The Unequal Treaties: China and the Foreigner.

Sir Harold Partlett, A Brief Account of Diplomatic Events in Manchuria.

Fr. Schjöth, The Currency of the Far East.

V.A. Riasanovsky, The Modern Civil Law of China (part 2).

G.F. Hudson, Europe and China: A Survey of their Relations from the Earliest Times to 1800.

Leonard Shiblien Hsü, The Political Philosophy of Confucianism.

E.T. Williams, China Yesterday and To-day.

Roswell S. Britton, The Chinese Periodical Press, 1800-1900.

Bernard M. Allen, The Rt. Hon. Sir Ernest Satow, G.C.M.G.: A Memoir.

[1930, pp. 217-221 Obituary of Sir E.M. Satow by J.H. Stewart Lockhart]
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to be regarded as such by mankind and to be revered only as the representation of that power. However, over the centuries, he has developed into a god in his own right, depicted as a gilded image of an emperor sitting on a throne, and is accepted by the masses as the ruler of the Heavenly bureaucracy.

In T'aishan in Shantung province it was claimed that the Jade Emperor in mortal life had been merely a learned doctor of medicine who had lived during the 12th century AD at the Sung court in Kaifeng. He attended the emperor Hui Tsung during a serious illness and saved his life with a miraculous cure. He was known as Chang Yu-huang, but, on his death, he, like many a hermit, was deified by imperial decree.

British representatives met the imperial representative, Li Hung-chang in 1876 in the temple (Yuh Huang T'ing) dedicated to the Jade Emperor to the west of Yent'ai (Cheefoo) in Shantung province to arrange the Chefoo Convention. Another incident involving the British in North China and connected with the Jade Emperor concerned Sir Meyrick Hewlett of the China Consular Service at the turn of the century during the clearing up after the siege of the British Embassy during the Boxer Rebellion. He found in the house of Sir Ernest Satow, HM Ambassador in Peking, a tablet with a background of sky-blue, framed in rich gold and inscribed with the four characters in gold — 'Huang T'ien Shang Ti'. Prince Ch'ing identified it as an item from the Temple of Heaven which had been missing for more than a year. When Sir Ernest asked how to restore it to its rightful place, the Prince begged the Ambassador not to send it round to his palace as should it be placed in the entrance he could neither leave nor enter his home without kowtowing twenty-seven times before it. Another more enlightened official helped out by bearing it off at dead of night in a Peking cart to the vaults of a European bank where it awaited a favourable day for restoring it to the Temple of Heaven. Some thirty-five years later, Sir Meyrick, paying his farewell visit to Peking, visited the Temple of Heaven and asked the attendants whether he could see the tablet, kept with the other tablets sacred to the emperors of the Ch'ing dynasty in a small temple opposite the Altar of Heaven. They replied that this was quite impossible, since even in post-imperial Kuomintang days no-one was allowed to see it. Sir Meyrick related the story of its recovery, upon which the attendants agreed to show him the tablet together with the tablets to the 28 Major Constellations, to Thunder and Lightning, and to the other forces of nature, but said that the tablets to the emperors were all lost after their
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