Captain Elliot And The Founding Of Hong Kong

Author : Jon Bursey
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1526722577
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain Elliot and the Founding of Hong Kong written by Jon Bursey and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at the life of Captain Charles Elliot—from his Royal Navy career to his controversial role in establishing Hong Kong as a British colony. On January 26, 1841, the British took possession of the island of Hong Kong. The Convention of Chuenpi was immediately repudiated by both the British and Chinese governments and their respective negotiators recalled. For the British this was Capt. Charles Elliot, whose actions in China became mired in controversy for years to come. Who was Captain Elliot, and how did he find himself at the center of this debate? This book traces Elliot’s career from his early life through his years in the Royal Navy before focusing on his role in the First Anglo-Chinese War and the founding of what became the Crown Colony of Hong Kong. Elliot has been demonized by China and for the most part poorly regarded by historians. This book shows him to have been a man ahead of his time whose views on slavery, armed conflict, the role of women and racial equality often placed him at variance with contemporary attitudes. Twenty years after the return of Hong Kong to China, his legacy is still with us.

Author : Susanna Hoe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136822496
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taking of Hong Kong written by Susanna Hoe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong Island on 26 January 1841. The man responsible, Britain's plenipotentiary Captain Charles Elliot, was recalled by his government in disgrace and has been vilified ever since by China. This book describes the taking of Hong Kong from Elliot's point of view for the first time '- through the personal letters of himself and his wife Clara '- and shows a man of intelligence, conscience and humanitarian instincts. The book gives new insights into Sino-British relations of the period. Because these are now being re-assessed both historically and for the future, revelations about Elliot's role, intentions and analysis are significant and could make an important difference to our understanding of the dynamics of these relations. On a different level, the book explores how Charles the private man, with his wife by his side, experienced events, rather than how Elliot the public figure reported them to the British government. The work is therefore of great historiographical interest.

Author : Clagette Blake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Charles Elliot, R. N., 1801-1875 written by Clagette Blake and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From 1842 to 1846, Elliot was charge d'affaires and consul general in the Republic of Texas"--Wikipedia.

Author : Ernest John Eitel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Europe in China written by Ernest John Eitel and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Austin Coates
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622090753
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macao and the British, 1637–1842 written by Austin Coates and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the British acquisition of Hong Kong is intricately related to that of the Portuguese enclave of Macao. The British acquired Hong Kong in 1841, following 200 years of European endeavours to induce China to engage in foreign trade. As a residential base of European trade, Portuguese Macao enabled the West to maintain continuous relations with China from 1557 onwards. Opening with a vivid description of the first English voyage to China in 1637. Macao and the Britishtraces the ensuing course of Anglo-Chinese relations, during which time Macao skillfully – and without fortifications – escaped domination by the British and Chinese. The account covers the opening of regular trade by the East India Company in 1770, including the 'country' trade between India and China and Britain's first embassies to Peking, and relates the bedeviling effect of the opium trade. The story culminates in the resulting war from which Britain won, as part of its concessions, the obscure island of Hong Kong. Among those who feature in this lucid and lively account are the merchant princes Jardine and Matheson, the missionary Robert Morrison, the artist George Chinnery, and Captain Charles Elliot, Hong Kong’s maligned founder. Austin Coates (1922–97), a former senior British civil servant in Hong Kong, Malaya, and Sarawak, left government service at age forty to pursue a professional writing career. Widely regarded as the most distinguished English-language author in Hong Kong, Coates remained a long-time Hong Kong resident, later dividing his time between Hong Kong and Portugal, where he died. Macao and the British is a companion to his other two books on Macao, A Macao Narrative and the historical novel City of Broken Promises. Both these books and his other novel, The Road, are also available in the Echoes series from Hong Kong University Press. "Macao history at its most readable. It … should be immediately snapped up by anyone who has been unlucky enough to have missed it up to now." – South China Morning Post "This study vividly introduces the general reader to historic Macau, once 'the outpost of all Europe in China' and foothold to East India Company officials and private merchants trading in Canton." – Clive Willis, Emeritus Professor of Portuguese Studies, University of Manchester and author of China and Macau "Macao and the British 1637–1842: Prelude to Hong Kong (1988), published originally in 1964 as Prelude to Hong Kong, was the first work on Macau by Austin Coates (1922–1997). It is the first comprehensive survey ever to be written on the English presence, the Anglo-Chinese-Portuguese relations in Macau, and the Portuguese settlement's strategic importance for the British China Trade." – Rogerio Puga, Assistant Professor of History, University of Macau

Author : G. B. Endacott
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9622097421
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Biographical Sketch-book of Early Hong Kong written by G. B. Endacott and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biographical essays in this book - first published in 1962 -- give a sharp and fascinating picture of some of the Europeans who helped establish the colony of Hong Kong and lived through its early years.

Author : Alain Le Pichon
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197263372
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book China Trade and Empire written by Alain Le Pichon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 263 letters written by or to William Jardine and James Matheson... covers a period of rapid growth for Jardine, Matheson & Co, from 1827 when the founders first joined forces, to Jardine's death in 1843, shortly after the end of the Opium War

Author : William Dallas Bernard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Nemesis in China written by William Dallas Bernard and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James William Norton-Kyshe
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Laws and Courts of Hong-kong written by James William Norton-Kyshe and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1634 pages
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Download or read book The Directory and Chronicle for China, Japan, Corea, Indo-China, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Netherlands India, Borneo, the Philippines, and Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: