Bits Of Old China By William C Hunter
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Bits of Old China
Author | : William C. Hunter |
Publsiher | : London : K. Paul, Trench |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1885 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : UCAL:$B295670 |
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Bits of Old China by William C Hunter
Author | : William C 1812-1891 Hunter |
Publsiher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1013909402 |
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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Bits of Old China 1885
Author | : William C Hunter |
Publsiher | : Literary Licensing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2014-08-07 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1498196055 |
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1885 Edition.
Bits of Old China
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Author | : William C. Hunter |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : OCLC:475402844 |
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Barons of the Sea
Author | : Steven Ujifusa |
Publsiher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2019-07-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781476745985 |
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“A fascinating, fast-paced history…full of remarkable characters and incredible stories” about the nineteenth-century American dynasties who battled for dominance of the tea and opium trades (Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award-winning author of In the Heart of the Sea). There was a time, back when the United States was young and the robber barons were just starting to come into their own, when fortunes were made and lost importing luxury goods from China. It was a secretive, glamorous, often brutal business—one where teas and silks and porcelain were purchased with profits from the opium trade. But the journey by sea to New York from Canton could take six agonizing months, and so the most pressing technological challenge of the day became ensuring one’s goods arrived first to market, so they might fetch the highest price. “With the verse of a natural dramatist” (The Christian Science Monitor), Steven Ujifusa tells the story of a handful of cutthroat competitors who raced to build the fastest, finest, most profitable clipper ships to carry their precious cargo to American shores. They were visionary, eccentric shipbuilders, debonair captains, and socially ambitious merchants with names like Forbes and Delano—men whose business interests took them from the cloistered confines of China’s expatriate communities to the sin city decadence of Gold Rush-era San Francisco, and from the teeming hubbub of East Boston’s shipyards and to the lavish sitting rooms of New York’s Hudson Valley estates. Elegantly written and meticulously researched, Barons of the Sea is a riveting tale of innovation and ingenuity that “takes the reader on a rare and intoxicating journey back in time” (Candice Millard, bestselling author of Hero of the Empire), drawing back the curtain on the making of some of the nation’s greatest fortunes, and the rise and fall of an all-American industry as sordid as it was genteel.
China Trade and Empire
Author | : Alain Le Pichon |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 672 |
Release | : 2006-08-10 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0197263372 |
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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
The Opium War 1840 1842
Author | : Peter Ward Fay |
Publsiher | : Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 439 |
Release | : 2000-11-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807861363 |
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This book tells the fascinating story of the war between England and China that delivered Hong Kong to the English, forced the imperial Chinese government to add four ports to Canton as places in which foreigners could live and trade, and rendered irreversible the process that for almost a century thereafter distinguished western relations with this quarter of the globe-- the process that is loosely termed the "opening of China." Originally published by UNC Press in 1975, Peter Ward Fay's study was the first to treat extensively the opium trade from the point of production in India to the point of consumption in China and the first to give both Protestant and Catholic missionaries their due; it remains the most comprehensive account of the first Opium War through western eyes. In a new preface, Fay reflects on the relationship between the events described in the book and Hong Kong's more recent history.
Sinologists as Translators in the Seventeenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Author | : Lawrence Wangchi Wong,Bernhard Fuehrer |
Publsiher | : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2016-02-15 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789629966072 |
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This collection of papers from the first and second international conferences with the above title explores why early sinologists chose certain works for translation in their particular historical contexts, how such works were interpreted, translated, or manipulated, and the impact they made, especially in establishing the discipline of sinology in various countries.