Author: John M. Carroll
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538157586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Early encounters between Britain and China are best known for igniting the First Opium War. Yet they also produced an enormous archive of writings by Britons who spent time in China. Frustrated with the restrictions imposed by the Manchu rulers of the Qing Empire, and unable to live or travel elsewhere apart from Canton and Macao, these diplomats, traders, missionaries, travelers, and military officers devoted thousands of pages to understanding China, its people, and their civilization. In China Hands and Old Cantons, John M. Carroll draws on this wealth of memoirs, ethnographic studies, travel accounts, narratives of military action, translations, and newspaper articles to trace Britons’ wide-ranging, often thoughtful perspectives on China, long before anyone considered going to war. They discussed almost everything they saw and speculated about much of what they could not see—including the size of China’s massive population, the extent of infanticide, the origins and practice of foot binding, and the legality and morality of the opium trade. They claimed that only those who had been there could truly understand the Middle Kingdom and that their firsthand experience gave them and their publications an advantage over those in Britain and elsewhere. Carroll brings a seminal period in the Anglo-Chinese relationship, which revolved around tea and opium, to life through the words of those who experienced it intimately.
China Hands and Old Cantons
Author: John M. Carroll
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538157586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Early encounters between Britain and China are best known for igniting the First Opium War. Yet they also produced an enormous archive of writings by Britons who spent time in China. Frustrated with the restrictions imposed by the Manchu rulers of the Qing Empire, and unable to live or travel elsewhere apart from Canton and Macao, these diplomats, traders, missionaries, travelers, and military officers devoted thousands of pages to understanding China, its people, and their civilization. In China Hands and Old Cantons, John M. Carroll draws on this wealth of memoirs, ethnographic studies, travel accounts, narratives of military action, translations, and newspaper articles to trace Britons’ wide-ranging, often thoughtful perspectives on China, long before anyone considered going to war. They discussed almost everything they saw and speculated about much of what they could not see—including the size of China’s massive population, the extent of infanticide, the origins and practice of foot binding, and the legality and morality of the opium trade. They claimed that only those who had been there could truly understand the Middle Kingdom and that their firsthand experience gave them and their publications an advantage over those in Britain and elsewhere. Carroll brings a seminal period in the Anglo-Chinese relationship, which revolved around tea and opium, to life through the words of those who experienced it intimately.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538157586
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Early encounters between Britain and China are best known for igniting the First Opium War. Yet they also produced an enormous archive of writings by Britons who spent time in China. Frustrated with the restrictions imposed by the Manchu rulers of the Qing Empire, and unable to live or travel elsewhere apart from Canton and Macao, these diplomats, traders, missionaries, travelers, and military officers devoted thousands of pages to understanding China, its people, and their civilization. In China Hands and Old Cantons, John M. Carroll draws on this wealth of memoirs, ethnographic studies, travel accounts, narratives of military action, translations, and newspaper articles to trace Britons’ wide-ranging, often thoughtful perspectives on China, long before anyone considered going to war. They discussed almost everything they saw and speculated about much of what they could not see—including the size of China’s massive population, the extent of infanticide, the origins and practice of foot binding, and the legality and morality of the opium trade. They claimed that only those who had been there could truly understand the Middle Kingdom and that their firsthand experience gave them and their publications an advantage over those in Britain and elsewhere. Carroll brings a seminal period in the Anglo-Chinese relationship, which revolved around tea and opium, to life through the words of those who experienced it intimately.
The Old China Hands
Author: Charles Grandison Finney
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
The Old China Hands
Author: Charles Grandison Finney
Publisher:
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Category : 15th Infantry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : 15th Infantry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Old China Hands
Author: Berkeley Chamber of Commerce
Publisher:
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Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Bits of Old China
Author: William C. Hunter
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Bits of old China. 2nd ed., Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, 1911. Typescript of the book.
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Bits of old China. 2nd ed., Shanghai, Kelly and Walsh, 1911. Typescript of the book.
The Old China Trade
Author: Francis Ross Carpenter
Publisher: New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A history of the trade between the United States and China, begun in 1784, which affected this country in many ways, including culturally, industrially, and territorially.
Publisher: New York : Coward, McCann & Geoghegan
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
A history of the trade between the United States and China, begun in 1784, which affected this country in many ways, including culturally, industrially, and territorially.
Canton Days
Author: John M. Carroll
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538136309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Canton Days offers the first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842. During that period, Britons and other Westerners in China were restricted to trading and living in a tiny section of the city of Canton and the small Portuguese territory of Macao. At Canton, trade between China and the West was conducted through a group of Chinese merchant houses specially licensed by the Qing government. British encounters with China in this period have been seen mainly as a prelude to war, and Britons in China usually have been characterized as single-minded traders determined to open the Middle Kingdom by any means or missionaries bent on converting the Chinese “heathen” to Christianity. John M. Carroll challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China as he traces the lives and times of the expatriates at the heart of this vital center of trade and exchange. The author draws on a rich trove of archival sources to bring Canton and its leading figures to life, concluding with the deaths of three Britons, each revealing British concerns and anxieties about being in China. Written in a clear and lively style, his book will appeal to all readers interested in British imperial history, early modern Chinese history, and the worlds of expatriate and sojourning communities.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1538136309
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Canton Days offers the first comprehensive history of the British community in China from the mid-1700s to the end of the Opium War in 1842. During that period, Britons and other Westerners in China were restricted to trading and living in a tiny section of the city of Canton and the small Portuguese territory of Macao. At Canton, trade between China and the West was conducted through a group of Chinese merchant houses specially licensed by the Qing government. British encounters with China in this period have been seen mainly as a prelude to war, and Britons in China usually have been characterized as single-minded traders determined to open the Middle Kingdom by any means or missionaries bent on converting the Chinese “heathen” to Christianity. John M. Carroll challenges common assumptions about the British presence in China as he traces the lives and times of the expatriates at the heart of this vital center of trade and exchange. The author draws on a rich trove of archival sources to bring Canton and its leading figures to life, concluding with the deaths of three Britons, each revealing British concerns and anxieties about being in China. Written in a clear and lively style, his book will appeal to all readers interested in British imperial history, early modern Chinese history, and the worlds of expatriate and sojourning communities.
Canton and the Bogue
Author: Walter William Mundy
Publisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Old China Trade
Author: Foster Rhea Dulles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Canton and the Bogue. The Narrative of an Eventful Six Months in China
Author: Walter William Mundy
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385365767
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385365767
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.