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Narrative Of The Expedition To China From The Commencement Of The War To Its Termination In 1842 Vol 2 Of 2
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Book Synopsis Narrative of the Expedition to China from the Commencement of the War to Its Termination in 1842 by : J. Elliot Bingham
Download or read book Narrative of the Expedition to China from the Commencement of the War to Its Termination in 1842 written by J. Elliot Bingham and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-27 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1843.
Author :Uganda Sze-pui Kwan Publisher :The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press ISBN 13 :9629966085 Total Pages :324 pages Book Rating :4.6/5 (299 download)
Book Synopsis Translation and Global Asia by : Uganda Sze-pui Kwan
Download or read book Translation and Global Asia written by Uganda Sze-pui Kwan and published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume originates from "The Fourth Asian Translation Traditions Conference" held in Hong Kong in December 2010. The conference generated stimulating discussions relating to the richness and diversity of nonWestern discourses and practices of translation, focusing on translational exchanges between nonWestern languages,and the change and continuity in Asian translation traditions. Translation and Global Asia shows a rich diversification of historical and geographical interests, and covers a broad array of topics, ranging from ninthcentury Buddhist translation in Tibet to twentyfirstcentury political translation in Malaysia. This collection is strikingly rich. Its authors deal with a wide range of topics in geographically diverse locations from India, Thailand, Japan, Korea, and the Philippines to different parts of China. They evoke different linguistic and historical contexts from ancient times right up to the contemporary period, and take a variety of approaches, strongly supported by current theories in translation and cultural studies. Presenting vital case studies, this essential volume illustrates the importance of examining translation from a historical perspective, of taking account of power relations, and of studying the unique role of translators in initiating change and transmitting new ideas.
Book Synopsis China Hands and Old Cantons by : John M. Carroll
Download or read book China Hands and Old Cantons written by John M. Carroll and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Gunpowder Age by : Tonio Andrade
Download or read book The Gunpowder Age written by Tonio Andrade and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-29 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first look at gunpowder's revolutionary impact on China's role in global history The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But by the early 1800s, China had fallen so far behind the West in gunpowder warfare that it was easily defeated by Britain in the Opium War of 1839–42. What happened? In The Gunpowder Age, Tonio Andrade offers a compelling new answer, opening a fresh perspective on a key question of world history: why did the countries of western Europe surge to global importance starting in the 1500s while China slipped behind? Historians have long argued that gunpowder weapons helped Europeans establish global hegemony. Yet the inhabitants of what is today China not only invented guns and bombs but also, as Andrade shows, continued to innovate in gunpowder technology through the early 1700s—much longer than previously thought. Why, then, did China become so vulnerable? Andrade argues that one significant reason is that it was out of practice fighting wars, having enjoyed nearly a century of relative peace, since 1760. Indeed, he demonstrates that China—like Europe—was a powerful military innovator, particularly during times of great warfare, such as the violent century starting after the Opium War, when the Chinese once again quickly modernized their forces. Today, China is simply returning to its old position as one of the world's great military powers. By showing that China’s military dynamism was deeper, longer lasting, and more quickly recovered than previously understood, The Gunpowder Age challenges long-standing explanations of the so-called Great Divergence between the West and Asia.
Book Synopsis A catalogue of the library of the North China branch of the Royal Asiatic society ... systematically classed by : Henri Cordier
Download or read book A catalogue of the library of the North China branch of the Royal Asiatic society ... systematically classed written by Henri Cordier and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society, afterwards North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (SHANGHAI). Library Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :106 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 (26 download)
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society-including the Library of Alex. Wylie, Esq.-systematically Classed. By Henri Cordier by : Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society, afterwards North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (SHANGHAI). Library
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of the North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society-including the Library of Alex. Wylie, Esq.-systematically Classed. By Henri Cordier written by Shanghai Literary and Scientific Society, afterwards North China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society (SHANGHAI). Library and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Western Technology and China’s Industrial Development by : Hsien-ch'un Wang
Download or read book Western Technology and China’s Industrial Development written by Hsien-ch'un Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-04-22 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills. It takes on the long-term problem in historiography that puts too much emphasis on politics but ignores the techno-scientific and institutional requirements for launching such an endeavor. It examines how translations broke linguistic and conceptual barriers and brought new a understanding of heat to the Chinese readership. It also explores how the Fuzhou Navy Yard’s shipbuilding and training program trained China’s first generation of shipbuilding workers and engineers. It argues that conservatism against technology was not to blame for China’s slow development in steamship building. Rather, it was government officials’ failure to realize the scale of institutional and techno-scientific changes required in importing and disperse new knowledge and skills.
Download or read book Luzac & Co.'s Oriental List written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Canton Days written by John M. Carroll and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book China on the Sea written by Zheng Yangwen and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-10-14 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume challenges the “Walled Kingdom” perspective. China reached out to the seas far more actively than historians have allowed, while the maritime world shaped China, Qing China in particular, much more than the continental world. It gave birth to and defined Chinese modernity.
Book Synopsis Catalogues of items for auction by Messrs. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, 1840-1870 by :
Download or read book Catalogues of items for auction by Messrs. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson, 1840-1870 written by and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Library of the Board of Trade by : Great Britain. Board of Trade. Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Library of the Board of Trade written by Great Britain. Board of Trade. Library and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Smoke and Ashes written by Amitav Ghosh and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2024-02-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Foreign Policy, Literary Hub, and The Millions Ghosh unravels the impact of the opium trade on global history and in his own family―the climax of a yearslong project. When Amitav Ghosh began the research for his monumental cycle of novels the Ibis Trilogy, he was startled to learn how the lives of the nineteenth-century sailors and soldiers he wrote about were dictated not only by the currents of the Indian Ocean but also by the precious commodity carried in enormous quantities on those currents: opium. Most surprising of all, however, was the discovery that his own identity and family history were swept up in the story. Smoke and Ashes is at once a travelogue, a memoir, and an essay in history, drawing on decades of archival research. In it, Ghosh traces the transformative effect the opium trade had on Britain, India, and China, as well as the world at large. The trade was engineered by the British Empire, which exported Indian opium to sell to China to redress their great trade imbalance, and its revenues were essential to the empire’s financial survival. Following the profits further, Ghosh finds opium central to the origins of some of the world’s biggest corporations, of America’s most powerful families and prestigious institutions (from the Astors and Coolidges to the Ivy League), and of contemporary globalism itself. Moving deftly between horticultural history, the mythologies of capitalism, and the social and cultural repercussions of colonialism, in Smoke and Ashes Ghosh reveals the role that one small plant has had in making our world, now teetering on the edge of catastrophe.
Book Synopsis Chinese Middlemen in Hong Kong's Colonial Economy, 1830-1890 by : Kaori Abe
Download or read book Chinese Middlemen in Hong Kong's Colonial Economy, 1830-1890 written by Kaori Abe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional view of the Hong Kong colonial economy is that it was dominated by Western companies, notably the great British merchant houses, and that these firms enlisted support from Chinese middlemen – the compradors – who were effectively agents working for the Western firms. This book, which presents a comprehensive overview of the compradors and their economic and social functions over the full period of colonial rule in Hong Kong, puts forward a different view. It shows that compradors existed before the beginning of British rule in 1842, discusses their economic and social roles in the colonial economy, roles which included activities for Western firms, for the government and to support compradors’ own commercial activities, and outlines how the comprador system evolved. Overall, the book demonstrates that the compradors played a key role in the formation and development of Hong Kong’s economy and society, that they were active participants, not just passive servants of Western companies.
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of Brown University by : Brown University. Library
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of Brown University written by Brown University. Library and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of Brown University ... With an Index of Subjects by : Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island). - Library
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of Brown University ... With an Index of Subjects written by Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island). - Library and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Catalogue of the Library of Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island by : Charles Coffin JEWETT
Download or read book A Catalogue of the Library of Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island written by Charles Coffin JEWETT and published by . This book was released on 1843 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
