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Book A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong

Download or read book A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong written by Benjamin Penny and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2023-10-06 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1855, 16-year-old Chaloner Alabaster left England for Hong Kong, to take up a position as a student interpreter in the China Consular Service. He would stay for almost 40 years, climbing the rungs of the service and eventually becoming consul-general of Canton. When he retired he returned to England and received a knighthood. He died in 1898. Throughout his adult life, Alabaster kept diaries. In the first four volumes of these diaries, collected here by Benjamin Penny, the teenage Alabaster recorded his thoughts and observations, told himself anecdotes, and exploded in outbursts of anger and frustration. He was young and enthusiastic, and the everyday sights, sounds and smells of Hong Kong were novel to him. He describes how the Chinese people around him ironed clothes, dried flour and threshed rice; how they gambled, prepared their food and made bean curd; and what opera, new year festivities and the birthday of the Heavenly Empress were like. Like many a young Victorian, he was also a keen observer of natural history, fascinated by fireflies and ants, corals and sea slugs, and the volcanic origins of the landscape. Alabaster’s diaries are a unique, vibrant and riveting record of life in the young British colony on the cusp of the Second Opium War. With A Young Englishman in Victorian Hong Kong, Penny sheds new light on the history of the region.

Book T oung pao

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Book Tr  bner s American and oriental literary record

Download or read book Tr bner s American and oriental literary record written by and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tr  bner s American and Oriental Literary Record

Download or read book Tr bner s American and Oriental Literary Record written by Nicolas Trübner and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tr  bner s American and Oriental literary record

Download or read book Tr bner s American and Oriental literary record written by Trübner and Co and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliotheca Orientalis

Download or read book Bibliotheca Orientalis written by Luzac &co and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of the Asiatic Library of Dr  G  E  Morrison  Now a Part of the Oriental Library  Tokyo  Japan  English books

Download or read book Catalogue of the Asiatic Library of Dr G E Morrison Now a Part of the Oriental Library Tokyo Japan English books written by Tōyō Bunko (Japan) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language

Download or read book The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language written by Chan Sin-Wai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-14 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is an invaluable resource for language learners and linguists of Chinese worldwide, those interested readers of Chinese literature and cultures, and scholars in Chinese studies. Featuring the research on the changing landscape of the Chinese language by a number of eminent academics in the field, this volume will meet the academic, linguistic and pedagogical needs of anyone interested in the Chinese language: from Sinologists to Chinese linguists, as well as teachers and learners of Chinese as a second language. The encyclopedia explores a range of topics: from research on oracle bone and bronze inscriptions, to Chinese language acquisition, to the language of the mass media. This reference offers a guide to shifts over time in thinking about the Chinese language as well as providing an overview of contemporary themes, debates and research interests. The editors and contributors are assisted by an editorial board comprised of the best and most experienced sinologists world-wide. The reference includes an introduction, written by the editor, which places the assembled texts in their historical and intellectual context. The Encyclopedia of the Chinese Language is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital research resource.

Book The Cambridge bibliography of English literature  3  1800   1900

Download or read book The Cambridge bibliography of English literature 3 1800 1900 written by Frederick Wilse Bateson and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1940 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal

Download or read book The Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal

Download or read book Chinese Recorder and Missionary Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalogue of Works on European Philology and the Minor European Languages

Download or read book Catalogue of Works on European Philology and the Minor European Languages written by Bernard Quaritch and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalog of Books on China in the Essex Institute  Compiled by Louise Marion Taylor

Download or read book Catalog of Books on China in the Essex Institute Compiled by Louise Marion Taylor written by Essex Institute. Library and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A General Catalogue of Books

Download or read book A General Catalogue of Books written by Bernard Quaritch and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 1156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: