951.054 m885 002094 IN THE DAYS OF THE TAIPINGS Being the Recollections of Ting Kienchang,otherwise Meisun, sometime Scoutmaster and Captain in the Ever-Victorious Army and Interpreter-in-Chief to General Ward and General Gordon An Historical Retrospect By B MORSE 一 60于托 GENERAL FREDERICK TOWNSEND WARD tEa 中研院近史圖書館 THE ESSEX INSTITUTE *MHE0002094* Salem,Massachusetts
TABLE OF CONTENTS. IN THE DAYS OF THE TAIPINGS. BOOK I. THE.TRIADS AT SHANGHAI. 1853-1855. CHAPTER PAGE I.My Forbears and My Upbringing II.My Career is Determined....·· 7 III.I am Launched at Shanghai,....…… 12 IV.I am Married....… 20 V.The Calm before the Storm ............. 26 VI.The Rebels seize Shanghai City.·· 31 VII.We Rescue the Taotai.................... 40 VIII.I am Introduced to Good Society ,… 49 IX.I Revisit my Home ..................... 58 X.The Customs Authorities are in Difficulties.. 66 XI.Our Encounter with.the Soldiers ......... 76 XII.I meet Mr.Alcock ..................... 86 XIII.The Assault on the City ................ 93 XIV.The Governor.receives Me................ 100 XV.A Country-house Visit................... 108 XVI.Mr.Murphy Enters on the Scene..........118 XVII.The Battle of Muddy Flat.................128 XVIII.Probity and Vigilance in the Customs.......137 XIX.The French Intervene ................... 147 XX.The Triads evacuate Shanghai ............156 ()
BOOK III. VICTORY WITH GORDON. BOOK II. 1862-1864. CAMPAIGNING WITH WARD. CHAPTER PAGE 1860-1862. I.Burgevine in Command ·.299 CHAPTER PAGE II.Holland in Command.................... 308 I.My First Meeting with Mr.Ward..........165 III.Gordon takes Command.................. 314 II.My Home is Desolate ....................174 IV. Mutiny of the Force… 322 III.Mr.Ward is Launched .................. 186 V.The Hyson at Kunshan ................. 328 IV.The Signal Success of Sungkiang ......... 193 VI.Capture of Wukiang .....................336 V.Mr.Ward is Wounded and Defeated ....... 203 VII.I enter Soochow .........................345 VI.Mr.Ward is Invalided ..................215 VIII.I begin my spying ...................... 353 VII.Mr.Ward a Prisoner ...................223 IX.The Foreigners abandon Soochow 364 VIII.Ward's Chinese Force ....................232 X.The Princes are faint-hearted.............370 IX.Kwangfuling and Its Results 244 XI.The closing of the net ................... 3Y7 X.Ward's Victorious Career .................254 XII.Surrender and execution of the Princes.....384 XI.Laurels and Orange Wreaths..............264 XIII.Achilles in his tent…· 392 XII.The Thirty-mile Zone is Cleared ..........272 XIV.The end of our campaigning .............402 XIII.Li Hungchang Takes the Reins ...........282 XV.The Ever-Victorious Army is disbanded.:..409 XIV.The Death of a Hero ...................291 XVI.A visit to Tseng Kwofan ................414 XVII.The Lost is found-and lost again .423 Epil0gue…………………… 431 (i) (i)
ILLUSTRATIONS. General Frederick T.Ward .................Frontispiece Li Hungchang..........................facing page 32 Taiping8……………… 33 West Gate and Wall,Shanghai 96 Walls and Moat of Sungkiang..................... 97 Battle of Muddy Flat ...........................128 Fields of Campaigns of the Ever-Victorious Army....165 Birthplace of General Ward in Salem.............. 192 Parents of General Ward ......................... 193 Changmei,wife of General Ward................... 25Y General Charles G.Gordon ....................... 299 Personal Effects of General Ward and his wife .....258 Tumulus or Mound,Raised over the Remains of General Ward ...............................320 Monument at the Bund,Shanghai,erected to the Memory of General Ward and other Foreigners....321 Shrine in the Temple erected at Sungkiang to the Manes of General Ward .....................384 View inside of Sungkiang…· 385 (ix)
PREFACE THE writer of these pages pleads guilty,and throws him- self on the mercy of the court.In extenuation of his offence he alleges that the events recorded are true to his- tory;that the racial characteristics and customs are correct ethnographically;and that,of the persons portrayed,some, the fictitious,are true to type,and with others,the real, he was well acquainted,either in person or by repute,with only one link in the chain connecting him with them. A romance should have a purpose other than that of filling an idle hour.The purpose of this work is to show how European qualities were called in to aid the Imperial government of China in suppressing the great Taiping re- bellion.Book I gives the history of a picturesque incident at Shanghai,which demonstrates the incapacity of the Im- perial government,in its then state of disorganisation and inefficiency,to suppress the armed resistance to its authority; but the writer has grasped the opportunity to describe some further aspects of the period.He has given an outline sketeh of old Shanghai and of the handful of English and American merchants who created the port and established the foundations of its prosperity;he has described the con- ditions which led to the creation of tho Inspectorate of Customs;and he has tried to make the reader understand the personality of some of the notabilities of the place.Of Rutherford Alcock,who was the untitled Governor of Shanghai in that critical time;of Robert C.Murphy,who averted a war which might have arisen from the same causes which two years later precipitated the struggle between Eng- land and China;of Yang Tzetang,the Banker Taki,who created and provided for the force which was the principal instrument in suppressing the rebellion.But above all he has tried to show the possibilities in the mental development of a timid young scholar of the Chinese gentry,who had been (xi)