Canton Days

Author : John M. Carroll
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538136309
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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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 : William C. Hunter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.AU/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The 'fan Kwae' at Canton Before Treaty Days, 1825-1844 written by William C. Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1782 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Canton Company of Baltimore
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 35 pages
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Download or read book Canton Days, the First Hundred Years Or So written by Canton Company of Baltimore and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert K. DeArment
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806129006
Total Pages : 416 pages
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Download or read book Alias Frank Canton written by Robert K. DeArment and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1997-09-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: nineteenth century and the first quarter of the twentieth. Western historian Robert K. DeArment has tracked down the facts of the mysterious Canton's early life and misdeeds in Texas; his participation in the Johnson County War as an agent of the Wyoming Stock Growers Association; his pursuit of the Daltons, Bill Doolin, and other outlaws in Oklahoma Territory; his experiences as a peace officer and gold prospector in Alaska; his career as a bounty hunter; and his.

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Total Pages : 776 pages
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Download or read book Old and New written by and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Virgil K. Y. Ho
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780199282715
Total Pages : 537 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Canton written by Virgil K. Y. Ho and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2005 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By studying six different aspects of culture in Canton in the period between the two World Wars, this book helps broaden our limited knowledge of the social and cultural lives of the common people in this largest city of South China. The author examines how the Cantonese in this periodindulged in their imagined cultural superiority as "modern" citizens, ushering in a cult of the modern city. During this period, Cantonese opera was also emerging and evolving into a widely accepted form of commercialised mass entertainment. The process of social and cultural change and its impacton the development of this city and its people are revealed throughout the book. This book also aims to redress some major misconceptions of the socio-cultural realities as seen in official rhetoric or academic discourse on the matters of patriotism and anti-foreignism, gambling, prostitution, and opium consumption. Contemporary non-official and folk materials reveal that thecommon people were much more pro-Western than xenophobic in attitude, and the alleged social and political "calamities" of gambling, opium consumption and prostitution were more rhetorical than real. Understanding Canton provides us with, not only a fuller and more comprehensive picture of city lifeand popular mentalities, but also an important clue to understand how and why the social history of this city was distorted and constructed in ways that suited the political ideology and nation-building agenda of the ruling regimes.

Author : Sir Edward Hertslet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Treaties and Tariffs Regulating the Trade Between Great Britain and Foreign Nations written by Sir Edward Hertslet and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 364 pages
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Author : Sir Edward Hertslet
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
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Download or read book Treaties and Tariffs Regulating the Trade Between Great Britain and Foreign Nations: Turkey written by Sir Edward Hertslet and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 536 pages
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Download or read book Records of the American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia written by American Catholic Historical Society of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: