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Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901  Volume 4

Download or read book British Travel Writing from China 1798 1901 Volume 4 written by Elizabeth H Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.

Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901  Volume 1

Download or read book British Travel Writing from China 1798 1901 Volume 1 written by Elizabeth H Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.

Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901

Download or read book British Travel Writing from China 1798 1901 written by Elizabeth Hope Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.

Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901  Volume 3

Download or read book British Travel Writing from China 1798 1901 Volume 3 written by Elizabeth H. Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.

Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901  Volume 3

Download or read book British Travel Writing from China 1798 1901 Volume 3 written by Elizabeth H Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.

Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901  Volume 5

Download or read book British Travel Writing from China 1798 1901 Volume 5 written by Elizabeth H Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-16 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.

Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901  Volume 2

Download or read book British Travel Writing from China 1798 1901 Volume 2 written by Elizabeth H. Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.

Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901  Century s end  1892 1901

Download or read book British Travel Writing from China 1798 1901 Century s end 1892 1901 written by Elizabeth Hope Chang and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901  Volume 2

Download or read book British Travel Writing from China 1798 1901 Volume 2 written by Elizabeth H Chang and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-11-18 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the next century. The collection ends with the Boxer Uprising which marked the beginning of the end of informal British empire on the Chinese mainland.

Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901  New perspectives  1882 1889

Download or read book British Travel Writing from China 1798 1901 New perspectives 1882 1889 written by Elizabeth Hope Chang and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901  Mid century explorations  1841 1863

Download or read book British Travel Writing from China 1798 1901 Mid century explorations 1841 1863 written by Elizabeth Hope Chang and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901

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Book British Travel Writing from China  1798 1901  Expanding frontiers  1866 1877

Download or read book British Travel Writing from China 1798 1901 Expanding frontiers 1866 1877 written by Elizabeth Hope Chang and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canton Days

    Book Details:
  • Author : John M. Carroll
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2020-02-12
  • ISBN : 1538136309
  • Pages : 359 pages

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.

Book Opium   s Orphans

    Book Details:
  • Author : P. E. Caquet
  • Publisher : Reaktion Books
  • Release : 2022-07-06
  • ISBN : 1789145597
  • Pages : 401 pages

Download or read book Opium s Orphans written by P. E. Caquet and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2022-07-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upending all we know about the war on drugs, a history of the anti-narcotics movement’s origins, evolution, and questionable effectiveness. Opium’s Orphans is the first full history of drug prohibition and the “war on drugs.” A no-holds-barred but balanced account, it shows that drug suppression was born of historical accident, not rational design. The war on drugs did not originate in Europe or the United States, and even less with President Nixon, but in China. Two Opium Wars followed by Western attempts to atone for them gave birth to an anti-narcotics order that has come to span the globe. But has the war on drugs succeeded? As opioid deaths and cartel violence run rampant, contestation becomes more vocal, and marijuana is slated for legalization, Opium's Orphans proposes that it is time to go back to the drawing board.

Book Scents of China

    Book Details:
  • Author : Xuelei Huang
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2023-07-31
  • ISBN : 1009207091
  • Pages : 317 pages

Download or read book Scents of China written by Xuelei Huang and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vivid and highly original reading of recent Chinese history, Xuelei Huang documents the eclectic array of smells that permeated Chinese life from the High Qing through to the Mao period. Utilising interdisciplinary methodology and critically engaging with scholarship in the expanding fields of sensory and smell studies, she shows how this period of tumultuous change in China was experienced through the body and the senses. Drawing on unexplored archival materials, readers are introduced to the 'smellscapes' of China from the eighteenth to mid-twentieth century via perfumes, food, body odours, public health projects, consumerism and cosmetics, travel literature, fiction and political language. This pioneering and evocative study takes the reader on a sensory journey through modern Chinese history, examining the ways in which the experience of scent and modernity have intertwined.

Book The Alcock Album  Scenes of China Consular Life 1843   1853

Download or read book The Alcock Album Scenes of China Consular Life 1843 1853 written by Andrew Hillier and published by City University of HK Press. This book was released on 2024-05-16 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following the ending of the First Opium War and the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842, Britain opened five treaty ports on the Chinese mainland in the cities now known as Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, and Xiamen. Foreigners were allowed for the first time to live and work normally in these cities under the eyes of their state’s consul. In establishing this presence, consular staff and their families faced numerous challenges, including unsuitable accommodation, illness, hostile local authorities, attacks from militias and pirates, while at the same time adjusting to an unfamiliar language and culture. Henrietta Alcock (1812–1853), the first wife of the British Consul, Rutherford Alcock, was little-known until an album of sketches and watercolours depicting her life in China came to light. Acquired by the Martyn Gregory Gallery, London in the early 1990s, the works in the Alcock Album feature picturesque natural landscapes, traditional Chinese architecture, and scenes of consular life. Drawing on more than one hundred images, this richly illustrated volume brings her out of the shadows, providing a unique picture of the treaty port world in its very earliest days and of Henrietta as an amateur artist, the wife of a consul and, most importantly, a woman in empire.