Download or read book The Remarkable Hybrid Maritime World of Hong Kong and the West River Region in the Late Qing Period written by Sze Hang Choi and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the hybrid maritime world of Hong Kong, Pearl River Delta and West River in the last two decades of the late Qing period, this work tells a vivid trading and competition story of previously unknown private Chinese traders and junk masters. This challenges the prevailing view of the domination of China’s maritime trade by modern foreign steamships. Making use of unpublished Kowloon Maritime Customs and British diplomatic records in the late 19th and early 20th century, Henry Sze Hang Choi convincingly shows how these private Chinese traders flexibly adopted to the foreign-dominated maritime customs agencies and treaty port system in defending their Chinese homeland stronghold against the invasion of foreign economic power.

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Download or read book Mast and Sail in Europe and Asia written by Herbert Warington Smyth and published by London, J. Murray. This book was released on 1906 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Piracy on the High Seas written by Diane Yancey and published by Greenhaven Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2012-01-06 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining and informative look at piracy throughout the centuries, this edition examines the real-life experiences of pirates and pirate hunters. Tales focus on piracy committed in the Caribbean, the Barbary Coast, and Asia, with a chapter devoted to modern piracy in areas like Somalia and the Strait of Malacca. Author Diane Yancey examines how the lives of pirates and their often brutal behavior contrast with romantic portrayals of maritime outlaws. Female pirates are also described, as well as the variety of superstitions that pirates had about women and how this affected their position within the pirate community.

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Download or read book The History of Sailing Ships written by Edward Keble Chatterton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-14 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original.

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Download or read book Sailing Ships written by Edward K. Chatterton and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2013-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story of sailing ships has been written primarily for the general reader, in the hope that the sons and daughters of a naval nation, and of an Empire that stretches beyond the seas, may find therein a record of some interest and assistance in enlarging and systematising their ideas on the subject, especially as regards the ships of earlier centuries. I trust that both the yachtsman and sailorman will find in these pages something of the same exiting pleasure which has been mine in tracing the course of the evolutions through which their ships have passed. A well written and beautifully illustrated historical account that starts with the early Egyptian ships from 6000 BC and covers the development of sailing ships until the beginning of the 20th century. Reprint of the original edition from 1909.

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