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Book Synopsis The British Presence in Macau, 1635-1793 by : Rogério Miguel Puga
Download or read book The British Presence in Macau, 1635-1793 written by Rogério Miguel Puga and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than four centuries, Macau was the centre of Portuguese trade and culture on the South China Coast. Until the founding of Hong Kong and the opening of other ports in the 1840s, it was also the main gateway to China for independent British merchants and their only place of permanent residence. Drawing extensively on Portuguese as well as British sources, The British Presence in Macau traces Anglo-Portuguese relations in South China from the first arrival of English trading ships in the 1630s to the establishment of factories at Canton, the beginnings of the opium trade, and the Macartney Embassy of 1793. The British and Portuguese—longstanding allies in the West—pursued more complex relations in the East, as trading interests clashed under a Chinese imperial system and as the British increasingly asserted their power as “a community in search of a colony”.
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Marsdeniana philologica et orientalis by : William Marsden
Download or read book Bibliotheca Marsdeniana philologica et orientalis written by William Marsden and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Bibliotheca Marsdeniana Philologica Et Orientalis. A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts Collected with a View of the General Comparison of Languages, and to the Study of Oriental Literature, by William Marsden, F. R. S. &c by : Bibliotheca Marsdeniana
Download or read book Bibliotheca Marsdeniana Philologica Et Orientalis. A Catalogue of Books and Manuscripts Collected with a View of the General Comparison of Languages, and to the Study of Oriental Literature, by William Marsden, F. R. S. &c written by Bibliotheca Marsdeniana and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Narrative of the British Embassy to China in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794 by : Aeneas Anderson
Download or read book A Narrative of the British Embassy to China in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794 written by Aeneas Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: News of Lord Macartney's embassy, the first British diplomatic mission to China, caused much excitement in Britain. Publishers were naturally keen to rush accounts into print as soon as possible and the present narrative, by Macartney's valet, was the first book describing the embassy to appear. It went through several editions, indicative of widespread popular interest, even if scholars and other writers consider that it lacks the gravitas of the authorised account published by Staunton in 1797, three years after the embassy's return.
Book Synopsis Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911 by : Shih-Wen Chen
Download or read book Representations of China in British Children's Fiction, 1851-1911 written by Shih-Wen Chen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her extensively researched exploration of China in British children’s literature, Shih-Wen Chen provides a sustained critique of the reductive dichotomies that have limited insight into the cultural and educative role these fictions played in disseminating ideas and knowledge about China. Chen considers a range of different genres and types of publication-travelogue storybooks, historical novels, adventure stories, and periodicals-to demonstrate the diversity of images of China in the Victorian and Edwardian imagination. Turning a critical eye on popular and prolific writers such as Anne Bowman, William Dalton, Edwin Harcourt Burrage, Bessie Marchant, G.A. Henty, and Charles Gilson, Chen shows how Sino-British relations were influential in the representation of China in children’s literature, challenges the notion that nineteenth-century children’s literature simply parroted the dominant ideologies of the age, and offers insights into how attitudes towards children’s relationship with knowledge changed over the course of the century. Her book provides a fresh context for understanding how China was constructed in the period from 1851 to 1911 and sheds light on British cultural history and the history and uses of children’s literature.
Book Synopsis Collections of the New-York Historical Society for the Year ... by :
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Book Synopsis Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the New-York Historical Society by :
Download or read book Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the New-York Historical Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of printed books in the library of the New York Historical Society by : New-York Historical Society
Download or read book Catalogue of printed books in the library of the New York Historical Society written by New-York Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of a Miscellaneous Collection of Books, Late the Property of a Gentleman of this City, Deceased, on Sale for Ready Money, by J. Chilcott, Bookseller, .. by : John Chilcott
Download or read book A Catalogue of a Miscellaneous Collection of Books, Late the Property of a Gentleman of this City, Deceased, on Sale for Ready Money, by J. Chilcott, Bookseller, .. written by John Chilcott and published by . This book was released on 1823 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Society and Sentiment by : Mark Salber Phillips
Download or read book Society and Sentiment written by Mark Salber Phillips and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deepening interest in both social and interior experience was a distinguishing feature of the cultural life of eighteenth-century Britain, influencing writers in all genres from fiction to philosophy. Focusing on this interplay of ideas and genres, Mark Phillips explores the ways in which writers and readers of history, memoir, biography and related literatures responded to the social and sentimental concerns of a modern, commercial society. He shows that the writing of history, which once concentrated exclusively on political events, widened its horizons in ways that often paralleled better-known developments in the contemporary novel. Ultimately, Phillips proposes a new model for the study of historiographical narrative. Countering tropological readings identified with Hayden White, he offers a more historically nuanced approach that stresses questions of genre and reception as a guide to understanding how narratives were reshaped by new audiences and new social needs. Drawing inspiration from both the social analysis of the Scottish Enlightenment and the sentimental aesthetics of the contemporary novel, historical writing began to explore the areas of social experience and private life for which there was no place in classical historiography. The consequence, Phillips argues, was a significant reframing of historical thought that expressed itself through new themes, including the histories of commerce, manners, literature, and women, and through some lively experiments in narrative form. This book offers a rich picture of historiography that will interest students of history and fiction alike.
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Book Synopsis Catalogue by : Calcutta (India). Imperial library
Download or read book Catalogue written by Calcutta (India). Imperial library and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Britain’s Second Embassy to China by : Caroline Stevenson
Download or read book Britain’s Second Embassy to China written by Caroline Stevenson and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lord Amherst’s diplomatic mission to the Qing Court in 1816 was the second British embassy to China. The first led by Lord Macartney in 1793 had failed to achieve its goals. It was thought that Amherst had better prospects of success, but the intense diplomatic encounter that greeted his arrival ended badly. Amherst never appeared before the Jiaqing emperor and his embassy was expelled from Peking on the day it arrived. Historians have blamed Amherst for this outcome, citing his over-reliance on the advice of his Second Commissioner, Sir George Thomas Staunton, not to kowtow before the emperor. Detailed analysis of British sources reveal that Amherst was well informed on the kowtow issue and made his own decision for which he took full responsibility. Success was always unlikely because of irreconcilable differences in approach. China’s conduct of foreign relations based on the tributary system required submission to the emperor, thus relegating all foreign emissaries and the rulers they represented to vassal status, whereas British diplomatic practice was centred on negotiation and Westphalian principles of equality between nations. The Amherst embassy’s failure revised British assessments of China and led some observers to believe that force, rather than diplomacy, might be required in future to achieve British goals. The Opium War of 1840 that followed set a precedent for foreign interference in China, resulting in a century of ‘humiliation’. This resonates today in President Xi Jinping’s call for ‘National Rejuvenation’ to restore China’s historic place at the centre of a new Sino-centric global order.
Book Synopsis An Embassy to China by : Earl George Macartney Macartney
Download or read book An Embassy to China written by Earl George Macartney Macartney and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Narrative of the British Embassy to China, in the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794 by : Aeneas Anderson
Download or read book A Narrative of the British Embassy to China, in the Years 1792, 1793 and 1794 written by Aeneas Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1796 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Narrative of the British Embassy to China in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794 ; Containing the Various Circumstances of the Embassy, with Accounts of Customs and Manners of the Chinese ; and a Description of the Country, Towns, Cities, &c. &c. By Æneas Anderson .. by : Aeneas Anderson
Download or read book A Narrative of the British Embassy to China in the Years 1792, 1793, and 1794 ; Containing the Various Circumstances of the Embassy, with Accounts of Customs and Manners of the Chinese ; and a Description of the Country, Towns, Cities, &c. &c. By Æneas Anderson .. written by Aeneas Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1795 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
