Author: George SMITH (Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
A Narrative of an exploratory Visit to each of the Consular Cities of China, and to the islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, in behalf of the Church Missionary Society, 1844-6
Author: George SMITH (Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong))Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: A catalogue of the books belonging to the Library company of Philadelphia
Author: Library company of PhiladelphiaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1150
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia: Sciences and arts
Author: 
Author: Publisher: 聯合電子出版有限公司（代理）
ISBN: 9620454073
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A Catalogue of the Books Belonging to the Library Company of Philadelphia
Author: The Alcock Album: Scenes of China Consular Life 1843–1853
Author: Andrew HillierPublisher: City University of HK Press
ISBN: 9629376776
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Following the ending of the First Opium War and the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842, Britain opened five treaty ports on the Chinese mainland in the cities now known as Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, and Xiamen. Foreigners were allowed for the first time to live and work normally in these cities under the eyes of their state’s consul. In establishing this presence, consular staff and their families faced numerous challenges, including unsuitable accommodation, illness, hostile local authorities, attacks from militias and pirates, while at the same time adjusting to an unfamiliar language and culture. Henrietta Alcock (1812–1853), the first wife of the British Consul, Rutherford Alcock, was little-known until an album of sketches and watercolours depicting her life in China came to light. Acquired by the Martyn Gregory Gallery, London in the early 1990s, the works in the Alcock Album feature picturesque natural landscapes, traditional Chinese architecture, and scenes of consular life. Drawing on more than one hundred images, this richly illustrated volume brings her out of the shadows, providing a unique picture of the treaty port world in its very earliest days and of Henrietta as an amateur artist, the wife of a consul and, most importantly, a woman in empire.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogus Librorum Impressorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae in Academia Oxoniensi B. Bandinel
Author: Chinese Christians
Author: Carl T. SmithPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9622096883
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
Provided with a Western-style education and versed in the English language by missionaries, the 19th-century Chinese Christian was a man who stood between cultures. The author shows how this dual aspect of his thought and outlook enabled him to act as liaison with foreigners promoting trade and commerce.