"Beacon" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH
A light-house, or sea-mark, formerly used to alarm the country, in case of the approach of an enemy, but now used for tlie guidance of ships at sea, by night, as well as hy day
A signal or conspicuous mark erected on an eminence near
the shore, or moored in shoal water, as a guide to mariners.
To give light to, as a beacon; to light up; to illumine.
A high hill near the shore.
That which gives notice of danger.
To furnish with a beacon or beacons.
A signal fire to notify of the approach of an enemy, or to
give any notice, commonly of warning.
I suggest that the Western impact, at least in nineteenth-century China, was overstated (and misstated) by an earlier generation of American historians. An especially egregious example of this, I argue, was American treatment of the Opium War, the objective importance of which was not nearly so great as we—and an almost unanimous corps of Chinese historians—have imagined.
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