Download or read book Strengthen the Country and Enrich the People written by Paul Bailey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ma Jianzhong was a close adviser to the powerful Qing government official, Li Hong-zhang, and wrote several essays between 1878 and 1890 outlining his plans for economic and administrative reform. He was the first Chinese to advocate the creation of a specialized and professional diplomatic corps. His contribution to the late nineteenth-century Chinese discourse on the state and the economy has hitherto been neglected. Paul Bailey's translation of his essays will contribute to a wider understanding of the origins and circulation of reform ideas in the late Qing.