Inspectorate General of Customs

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Inspectorate General of Customs

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Foreign relations in the 1860s
…offices attached to it: the Inspectorate General of Customs and Tongwen Guan. The former was the center for the Maritime Custom Service, administered by Western personnel appointed by the Qing. The latter was the language school opened to train the children of bannermen in foreign languages, and later some Western…
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…offices attached to it: the Inspectorate General of Customs and Tongwen Guan. The former was the center for the Maritime Custom Service, administered by Western personnel appointed by the Qing. The latter was the language school opened to train the children of bannermen in foreign languages, and later some Western…
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