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Author : Sir George Thomas Staunton
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Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China written by Sir George Thomas Staunton and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir George Thomas Staunton
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Total Pages : 462 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Miscellaneous Notices Relating to China written by Sir George Thomas Staunton and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Enoch Cobb WINES
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Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book A Peep at China, in Mr. Dunn's Chinese Collection, with miscellaneous notices relating to the customs of the Chinese, and our commercial intercourse with them written by Enoch Cobb WINES and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John M. Carroll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538157586
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
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.
Author : Detroit Public Library
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Total Pages : 1134 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book General Catalogue of the Books Except Fiction, French, and German, in the Public Library of Detroit, Mich written by Detroit Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Chinese written by sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John M. Carroll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538136309
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
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.
Author : Georg Lehner
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004201505
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book China in European Encyclopaedias, 1700-1850 written by Georg Lehner and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the ways in which English, French, and German eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century encyclopaedias dealt with things Chinese, offering an analysis of the broad variety of sources and an overview of the main strands of discourse on China.
Author : John Francis Davis
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Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book The Chinese written by John Francis Davis and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sir John Francis Davis
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Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Chinese written by Sir John Francis Davis and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Stevenson
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1760464090
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (64 download)
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.
Author : Henry George Bohn
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Total Pages : 1062 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)
Download or read book Catalogue of the first (-third and concluding) portion of the ... stock of mr. Henry George Bohn ... which will be sold by auction written by Henry George Bohn and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1062 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Wells Williams
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Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book English and Chinese Vocabulary in the Court Dialect written by Samuel Wells Williams and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Wells Williams
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Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (7 download)
Download or read book An English and Chinese Vocabulary, in the Court Dialect written by Samuel Wells Williams and published by . This book was released on 1844 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Victor H. Li
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295803876
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Law and Politics in China's Foreign Trade written by Victor H. Li and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updated papers of a conference held at the Contemporary China Institute, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, 1971, and sponsored by the Subcommittee on Contemporary China of the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies, and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, with the cooperation of the Contemporary China Institute.
Author : Patrick J. N. Tuck
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
ISBN 13 : 9780415190046
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Britain and the China Trade 1635-1842 written by Patrick J. N. Tuck and published by Taylor & Francis US. This book was released on 2000 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander von Humboldt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022665169X
Total Pages : 646 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (266 download)
Download or read book Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 2 written by Alexander von Humboldt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-03-27 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 of this critical edition includes the translation of Volumes 3 and 4 of the second, revised French edition of Alexander von Humboldt’s Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne from 1825 to 1827 as well as notes, supplements, indexes, and more. Alexander von Humboldt was the most celebrated modern chronicler of North and South America and the Caribbean, and this translation of his essay on New Spain—the first modern regional economic and political geography—covers his travels across today’s Mexico in 1803–1804. The work canvases natural-scientific and cultural-scientific objects alike, combining the results of fieldwork with archival research and expert testimony. To show how people, plants, animals, goods, and ideas moved across the globe, Humboldt wrote in a variety of styles, bending and reshaping familiar writerly conventions to keep readers attentive to new inputs. Above all, he wanted his readers to be open-minded when confronted with cultural and other differences in the Americas. Fueled by his comparative global perspective on politics, economics, and science, he used his writing to support Latin American independence and condemn slavery and other forms of colonial exploitation. It is these voluminous and innovative writings on the New World that made Humboldt the undisputed father of modern geography, early American studies, transatlantic cultural history, and environmental studies. This two-volume critical edition—the third installment in the Alexander von Humboldt in English series—is based on the full text, including all footnotes, tables, and maps, of the second, revised French edition of Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne from 1825 to 1827, which has never been translated into English before. Extensive annotations and full-color atlases are available on the series website.
