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Excerpt from Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 13 The Burmese tribute to China has been considered of such a purely ceremonial nature that the British government showed no hesitation, when concluding the recent Burmah convention with China by which the latter power agrees to the occupation of Upper Burmah by Great Britain, to guarantee the continuance of the decennial tribute mission to Peking. The tribute sent to Peking by all the vassal states, and also by the Tibetans, and the Aboriginal tribes of Western China, is solely a quid pro guo for the privilege of trading with'the Chinese under extraordinarily favorable conditions, the mer chants and merchandise being brought to the market and returned home free of all charges. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.