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Author : Robert Swinhoe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
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Download or read book Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860 written by Robert Swinhoe and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Swinhoe
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3375041055
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860 written by Robert Swinhoe and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-06-04 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1861.
Author : Robert Swinhoe
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333139124
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860 written by Robert Swinhoe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-05 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860: Containing Personal Experiences of Chinese Character, and of the Moral and Social Condition of the Country; Together With a Description of the Interior of Pekin Each chapter, as it was written, was forwarded home; and as now, With the closing chapter, I am unable to leave my duties in China to revisit England for the purpose of passing the work through the press, I must beg the indulgence of the reader for its literary defects and errors; I trust, however, that they are few and unimportant. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Robert Swinhoe
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Download or read book Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860; Containing Personal Experiences of Chinese Character, and of the Moral and Social Condition of the Country; Together with a Description of the Interior of Pekin written by Robert Swinhoe and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Swinhoe R.
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Total Pages : 407 pages
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Download or read book Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860 written by Swinhoe R. and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Robert Swinhoe
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Total Pages : 424 pages
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Download or read book Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860 written by Robert Swinhoe and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Swinhoe
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781290566995
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 download)
Download or read book Narrative of the North China Campaign of 1860; Containing Personal Experiences of Chinese Character, and of the Moral and Social Condition of the Coun written by Robert Swinhoe and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : E. Ringmar
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137031603
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Liberal Barbarism written by E. Ringmar and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Liberal Barbarism, Erik Ringmar sets out to explain the 1860 destruction of Yuanmingyuan - the Chinese imperial palace north-west of Beijing - at the hands of British and French armies. Yuanmingyuan was the emperor's own theme-park, a perfect world, a vision of paradise, which housed one of the greatest collections of works of art ever assembled. The intellectual puzzle which the book addresses concerns why the Europeans, bent on "civilizing" the Chinese, engaged in this act of barbarism. The answer is provided through an analysis of the performative aspect of the confrontation between Europe and China, focusing on the differences in the way their respective international systems were conceptualized. Ringmar reveals that the destruction of Yuanmingyuan represented the Europeans' campaign to "shock and awe" the Chinese, thereby forcing them to give up their way of organizing international relations. The contradictions which the events of 1860 exemplify - the contradiction between civilization and barbarism - is a theme running through all European (and North American) relations with the rest of the world since, including, most recently, the US war in Iraq.
Author : Kate Hill
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134794738
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book Britain and the Narration of Travel in the Nineteenth Century written by Kate Hill and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interrogating the multiple ways in which travel was narrated and mediated, by and in response to, nineteenth-century British travelers, this interdisciplinary collection examines to what extent these accounts drew on and developed existing tropes of travel. The three sections take up personal and intimate narratives that were not necessarily designed for public consumption, tales intended for a popular audience, and accounts that were more clearly linked with discourses and institutions of power, such as imperial processes of conquest and governance. Some narratives focus on the things the travelers carried, such as souvenirs from the battlefields of Britain’s imperial wars, while others show the complexity of Victorian dreams of the exotic. Still others offer a disapproving glimpse of Victorian mores through the eyes of indigenous peoples in contrast to the imperialist vision of British explorers. Swiss hotel registers, guest books, and guidebooks offer insights into the history of tourism, while new photographic technologies, the development of the telegraph system, and train travel transformed the visual, audial, and even the conjugal experience of travel. The contributors attend to issues of gender and ethnicity in essays on women travelers, South African travel narratives, and accounts of China during the Opium Wars, and analyze the influence of fictional travel narratives. Taken together, these essays show how these multiple narratives circulated, cross-fertilised, and reacted to one another to produce new narratives, new objects, and new modes of travel.
Author : James John Graham
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Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Military ends and moral means: exemplifying the higher influences affecting military life and character; the motives to enlistment, etc written by James John Graham and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louise Tythacott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135162489X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Collecting and Displaying China's “Summer Palace” in the West written by Louise Tythacott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-25 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In October 1860, at the culmination of the Second Opium War, British and French troops looted and destroyed one of the most important palace complexes in imperial China—the Yuanmingyuan. Known in the West as the "Summer Palace," this site consisted of thousands of buildings housing a vast art collection. It is estimated that over a million objects may have been taken from the palaces in the Yuanmingyuan—and many of these are now scattered around the world, in private collections and public museums. With contributions from leading specialists, this is the first book to focus on the collecting and display of "Summer Palace" material over the past 150 years in museums in Britain and France. It examines the way museums placed their own cultural, political and aesthetic concerns upon Yuanmingyuan material, and how displays—especially those at the Royal Engineers Museum in Kent, the National Museum of Scotland and the Musée Chinois at the Château of Fontainebleau—tell us more about European representations and images of China, than they do about the Yuanmingyuan itself.
Author : James J. Graham (Lieutenant-Colonel.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 ( download)
Download or read book Military Ends and Moral Means: Exemplifying the Higher Influences Affecting Military Life and Character; the Motives to Enlistment; the Use of Stratagems in War; the Necessity of Standing Armies; and the Duties of a Military Force Aiding the Civil Power written by James J. Graham (Lieutenant-Colonel.) and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward TOWNEND
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Tables shewing the cost of Tea, with all charges, as bought in Hankow by the pecul of 1331/3 pounds avoirdupois for taels of Sycee, and sold in London by the pound avoirdupois at the several exchanges, etc written by Edward TOWNEND and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Edward Townend
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Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Tables shewing the cost of tea, with all charges [&c.]. written by Edward Townend and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Xin Liu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000637565
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War written by Xin Liu and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-12 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I’s first letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston’s letter to the Minister of China in 1840. Starting with Queen Elizabeth I’s letter to the Chinese Emperor and ending with the letter from Lord Palmerston to the Minister of China just before the Opium War, this book explores the long journey in between from cultural diplomacy to gunboat diplomacy. It interweaves the most known diplomatic efforts at the official level with the much unknown intellectual interactions at the people-to-people level, from missionaries to scholars, from merchants to travelers and from artists to scientists. This book adopts a novel "mirror" approach by pairing and comparing people, texts, commodities, artworks, architecture, ideologies, operating systems and world views of the two empires. Using letters, gifts and traded goods as fulcrums, and by adopting these unique lenses, it puts China into the world history narratives to contextualise Anglo-Chinese relations, thus providing a fresh analysis of the surviving evidence. Xin Liu casts a new light on understanding the Sino-centric and Anglo-centric world views in driving the complex relations between the two empires, and the reversals of power shifts that are still unfolding today. The book is not intended for specialists in history, but a general audience wishing to learn more about China’s historical engagement with the world.
Author : Tiffany Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199657599
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Keeping Their Marbles written by Tiffany Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of how the museums of the West acquired their fabulous collections, from the Benin Bronzes to Native American sacred objects, and why they should not by returned to the lands -- or the people -- from which they came.
