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Wright/ DS763.B7 GUMP | The Burlingame mission : a political disclosure, supported by official documents, mostly unpublished. To which are added: various papers and discourses on the claim of the Emperor of China to universal supremacy; the true nature of actual diplomatic relations between China and western powers; the position and influence in China of Robert Hart, esq., as confidential adviser of the Tsung-li Yamen; the Hart-Alcock convention; the dispersion of the Lay-Osborn flotilla; the "New Chinese University"; the policy of the United States in China; the new