マーガリ事件をめぐる英淸交渉 : ウェードの第一次北京離脱まで

Abstract

In February 1875 the British interpreter A.R. Margary was killed near the town Manwyne in the border regions of Yunnan and in the same area Browne's trade mission coming from Burmese Bhamo was attacked; these incidents gave rise to the so-called Yunnan problem. Upon receiving reports about the incidents, the British minister to China, T.F. Wade, initiated diplomatic negotiations to settle a number of outstanding issues. For more than a month it was demanded of Prince Gong and the ministers of the Zongli Yamen 1) that British officials partake in the investigation and adjudication of the incidents, 2) that reparations be made for damages incurred in the incidents, and 3) that clause IV and 4) clause XXVIII of the Tianjin Convention be revised. These were the basal conditions put forward by the British and the negotiations were settled one and a half year later with the conclusion of the Chefoo Convention. Demands 3) and 4) had no direct connection with the Yunnan problem, but from the fact that Wade presented these demands from the start of the negotiations, one can see that they constituted his main points of interest.