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Captain Elliot And The Founding Of Hong Kong
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Book Synopsis Captain Elliot and the Founding of Hong Kong by : Jon Bursey
Download or read book Captain Elliot and the Founding of Hong Kong written by Jon Bursey and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the life of Captain Charles Elliot—from his Royal Navy career to his controversial role in establishing Hong Kong as a British colony. On January 26, 1841, the British took possession of the island of Hong Kong. The Convention of Chuenpi was immediately repudiated by both the British and Chinese governments and their respective negotiators recalled. For the British this was Capt. Charles Elliot, whose actions in China became mired in controversy for years to come. Who was Captain Elliot, and how did he find himself at the center of this debate? This book traces Elliot’s career from his early life through his years in the Royal Navy before focusing on his role in the First Anglo-Chinese War and the founding of what became the Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Elliot has been demonized by China and for the most part poorly regarded by historians. This book shows him to have been a man ahead of his time whose views on slavery, armed conflict, the role of women and racial equality often placed him at variance with contemporary attitudes. Twenty years after the return of Hong Kong to China, his legacy is still with us.
Book Synopsis The Taking of Hong Kong by : Susanna Hoe
Download or read book The Taking of Hong Kong written by Susanna Hoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong Island on 26 January 1841. The man responsible, Britain's plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot, was recalled by his government in disgrace and has been vilified ever since by China. This book describes the taking of Hong Kong from Elliot's point of view for the first time '- through the personal letters of himself and his wife Clara '- and shows a man of intelligence, conscience and humanitarian instincts. The book gives new insights into Sino-British relations of the period. Because these are now being re-assessed both historically and for the future, revelations about Elliot's role, intentions and analysis are significant and could make an important difference to our understanding of the dynamics of these relations. On a different level, the book explores how Charles the private man, with his wife by his side, experienced events, rather than how Elliot the public figure reported them to the British government. The work is therefore of great historiographical interest.
Book Synopsis Europe in China by : Ernest John Eitel
Download or read book Europe in China written by Ernest John Eitel and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Biographical Sketch-book of Early Hong Kong by : G. B. Endacott
Download or read book A Biographical Sketch-book of Early Hong Kong written by G. B. Endacott and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biographical essays in this book - first published in 1962 -- give a sharp and fascinating picture of some of the Europeans who helped establish the colony of Hong Kong and lived through its early years.
Book Synopsis Macao and the British, 1637–1842 by : Austin Coates
Download or read book Macao and the British, 1637–1842 written by Austin Coates and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the British acquisition of Hong Kong is intricately related to that of the Portuguese enclave of Macao. The British acquired Hong Kong in 1841, following 200 years of European endeavours to induce China to engage in foreign trade. As a residential base of European trade, Portuguese Macao enabled the West to maintain continuous relations with China from 1557 onwards. Opening with a vivid description of the first English voyage to China in 1637. Macao and the Britishtraces the ensuing course of Anglo-Chinese relations, during which time Macao skillfully – and without fortifications – escaped domination by the British and Chinese. The account covers the opening of regular trade by the East India Company in 1770, including the 'country' trade between India and China and Britain's first embassies to Peking, and relates the bedeviling effect of the opium trade. The story culminates in the resulting war from which Britain won, as part of its concessions, the obscure island of Hong Kong. Among those who feature in this lucid and lively account are the merchant princes Jardine and Matheson, the missionary Robert Morrison, the artist George Chinnery, and Captain Charles Elliot, Hong Kong’s maligned founder. Austin Coates (1922–97), a former senior British civil servant in Hong Kong, Malaya, and Sarawak, left government service at age forty to pursue a professional writing career. Widely regarded as the most distinguished English-language author in Hong Kong, Coates remained a long-time Hong Kong resident, later dividing his time between Hong Kong and Portugal, where he died. Macao and the British is a companion to his other two books on Macao, A Macao Narrative and the historical novel City of Broken Promises. Both these books and his other novel, The Road, are also available in the Echoes series from Hong Kong University Press. "Macao history at its most readable. It … should be immediately snapped up by anyone who has been unlucky enough to have missed it up to now." – South China Morning Post "This study vividly introduces the general reader to historic Macau, once 'the outpost of all Europe in China' and foothold to East India Company officials and private merchants trading in Canton." – Clive Willis, Emeritus Professor of Portuguese Studies, University of Manchester and author of China and Macau "Macao and the British 1637–1842: Prelude to Hong Kong (1988), published originally in 1964 as Prelude to Hong Kong, was the first work on Macau by Austin Coates (1922–1997). It is the first comprehensive survey ever to be written on the English presence, the Anglo-Chinese-Portuguese relations in Macau, and the Portuguese settlement's strategic importance for the British China Trade." – Rogerio Puga, Assistant Professor of History, University of Macau
Book Synopsis Charles Elliot, R. N., 1801-1875 by : Clagette Blake
Download or read book Charles Elliot, R. N., 1801-1875 written by Clagette Blake and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1842 to 1846, Elliot was charge d'affaires and consul general in the Republic of Texas"--Wikipedia.
Book Synopsis China Trade and Empire by : Alain Le Pichon
Download or read book China Trade and Empire written by Alain Le Pichon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 263 letters written by or to William Jardine and James Matheson... covers a period of rapid growth for Jardine, Matheson & Co, from 1827 when the founders first joined forces, to Jardine's death in 1843, shortly after the end of the Opium War
Book Synopsis The Nemesis in China by : William Dallas Bernard
Download or read book The Nemesis in China written by William Dallas Bernard and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of the Laws and Courts of Hong-kong by : James William Norton-Kyshe
Download or read book The History of the Laws and Courts of Hong-kong written by James William Norton-Kyshe and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Chinese War by : John Ouchterlony
Download or read book The Chinese War written by John Ouchterlony and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Trade, Industrial Restructuring and Development in Hong Kong by : Ho Yin-Ping
Download or read book Trade, Industrial Restructuring and Development in Hong Kong written by Ho Yin-Ping and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on trade in manufactures, industrial restructuring and economic development and enforced by a rich source of data, this book offers an in-depth examination of the evolution and characteristics of Hong Kong's postwar economy. The book presents an historical and comparative perspective and analyses the symbiotic connection with South China in the light of China's open-door policy since late 1970s, as well providing a thoughtful assessment of its current turning point.
Book Synopsis Papers Relative to the Establishment of a Court of Judicature in China, for the Purpose of Enabling the British Superintendents of Trade to Exercise a Controul Over the Proceedings of British Subjects, in Their Intercourse with Each Other and with the Chinese by : Great Britain. Foreign Office
Download or read book Papers Relative to the Establishment of a Court of Judicature in China, for the Purpose of Enabling the British Superintendents of Trade to Exercise a Controul Over the Proceedings of British Subjects, in Their Intercourse with Each Other and with the Chinese written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Hong Kong by : G. B. Endacott
Download or read book A History of Hong Kong written by G. B. Endacott and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1973 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Hong Kong Legal System by : Stefan H. C. Lo
Download or read book The Hong Kong Legal System written by Stefan H. C. Lo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers an accessible overview of Hong Kong's legal system and guides first-year law students in legal research and methods.
Book Synopsis The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year ... by :
Download or read book The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History and Politics of the Year ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuation of the reference work that originated with Robert Dodsley, written and published each year, which records and analyzes the year’s major events, developments and trends in Great Britain and throughout the world. After 1815 the usual form became a number of chapters on Great Britain, paying particular attention to the proceedings of Parliament, followed by chapters covering other countries in turn, no longer limited to Europe. The expansion of the History came at the expense of the sketches, reviews and other essays so that the nineteenth-century publication ceased to have the miscellaneous character of its eighteenth-century forebear, although poems continued to be included until 1862, and a small number of official papers and other important texts continue to be reproduced.
Book Synopsis The Opium Wars by : W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D.
Download or read book The Opium Wars written by W Travis Hanes III, Ph.D. and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2004-02-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at the other side of the Opium Wars In this tragic and powerful story, the two Opium Wars of 1839–1842 and 1856–1860 between Britain and China are recounted for the first time through the eyes of the Chinese as well as the Imperial West. Opium entered China during the Middle Ages when Arab traders brought it into China for medicinal purposes. As it took hold as a recreational drug, opium wrought havoc on Chinese society. By the early nineteenth century, 90 percent of the Emperor's court and the majority of the army were opium addicts. Britain was also a nation addicted—to tea, grown in China, and paid for with profits made from the opium trade. When China tried to ban the use of the drug and bar its Western smugglers from it gates, England decided to fight to keep open China's ports for its importation. England, the superpower of its time, managed to do so in two wars, resulting in a drug-induced devastation of the Chinese people that would last 150 years. In this page-turning, dramatic and colorful history, The Opium Wars responds to past, biased Western accounts by representing the neglected Chinese version of the story and showing how the wars stand as one of the monumental clashes between the cultures of East and West. "A fine popular account."—Publishers Weekly "Their account of the causes, military campaigns and tragic effects of these wars is absorbing, frequently macabre and deeply unsettling."—Booklist
Book Synopsis The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East by : Nicholas Belfield Dennys
Download or read book The China Review, Or, Notes and Queries on the Far East written by Nicholas Belfield Dennys and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
