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Category : China
Languages : en
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Britain and the China Trade 1635-1842: Notes of proceedings and occurrences during the British embassy to Pekin in 1816
Author: Britain and the China Trade, 1635-1842
Author: Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences During the British Embassy to Pekin in 1816
Author: Sir George Thomas StauntonPublisher:
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Category : China
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Britain and the China Trade 1635-1842
Author: Patrick J. N. TuckPublisher: Taylor & Francis US
ISBN: 9780415190046
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 360
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Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences, During the British Embassy to Pekin, in 1816
Author: Sir George Thomas StauntonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781139506526
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 494
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The British Presence in Macau, 1635-1793
Author: Rogério Miguel PugaPublisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 9888139797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
For more than four centuries, Macau was the centre of Portuguese trade and culture on the South China Coast. Until the founding of Hong Kong and the opening of other ports in the 1840s, it was also the main gateway to China for independent British merchants and their only place of permanent residence. Drawing extensively on Portuguese as well as British sources, The British Presence in Macau traces Anglo-Portuguese relations in South China from the first arrival of English trading ships in the 1630s to the establishment of factories at Canton, the beginnings of the opium trade, and the Macartney Embassy of 1793. The British and Portuguese—longstanding allies in the West—pursued more complex relations in the East, as trading interests clashed under a Chinese imperial system and as the British increasingly asserted their power as “a community in search of a colony”.
The Case for Repatriating China’s Cultural Objects
Author: Zuozhen LiuPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 9811005974
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
This book investigates China's demands for the repatriation of Chinese cultural relics 'lost' during the country's modern history. It addresses two main research questions: Can the original owners, or their rightful successors, of cultural objects looted, stolen, or illicitly exported before the adoption of the 1954 Hague Convention and the 1970 UNESCO Convention reclaim their cultural objects pursuant to remedies provided by international or national law? And what are the philosphical, ethical, and cultural considerations of identity underlying the international conventions protecting cultural objects and claims made for repatriating them? The first part of the book explores current positive legal regimes, while the second part focuses on the philosphical, ethical, and cultural considerations regarding repatriation of cultural objects. Consisting of seven chapters and an introduction, it outlines the loss of Chinese cultural relics in modern history and the normative framework for the protection of cultural heritage. It presents case studies designed to assess the possibility of seeking legal remedies for restitution under contemporary legal regimes and examines the cultural and ethical issues underpinning the international conventions protecting cultural heritage and claims for the repatriation of cultural heritage. It also discusses issues of cultural identity, the right to cultural identity and heritage, multiculturalism, the politics of recognition, cosmopolitanism, the right to cultural heritage, and other related issues. The concluding chapter answers the two research questions and offers suggestions for future research.
Notes of Proceedings and Occurrences During the British Embassy to Pekin in 1816. For Private Circulation Only
Author: George Thomas StauntonAsian Empire and British Knowledge
Author: U. HillemannPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230246753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
British knowledge about China changed fundamentally in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Rather than treating these changes in British understanding as if Anglo-Sino relations were purely bilateral, this study looks at how British imperial networks in India and Southeast Asia were critical mediators in the British encounter of China.
Early Encounters between East Asia and Europe
Author: Ralf HertelPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317147197
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
While inquiries into early encounters between East Asia and the West have traditionally focused on successful interactions, this collection inquires into the many forms of failure, experienced on all sides, in the period before 1850. Countering a tendency in scholarship to overlook unsuccessful encounters, it starts from the assumption that failures can prove highly illuminating and provide valuable insights into both the specific shapes and limitations of East Asian and Western imaginations of the Other, as well as of the nature of East-West interaction. Interdisciplinary in outlook, this collection brings together the perspectives of sinology, Japanese and Korean studies, historical studies, literary studies, art history, religious studies, and performance studies. The subjects discussed are manifold and range from missionary accounts, travel reports, letters and trade documents to fictional texts as well as material objects (such as tea, chinaware, or nautical instruments) exchanged between East and West. In order to avoid a Eurocentric perspective, the collection balances approaches from the fields of English literature, Spanish studies, Neo-Latin studies, and art history with those of sinology, Japanese studies, and Korean studies. It includes an introduction mapping out the field of failures in early modern encounters between East Asia and Europe, as well as a theoretically minded essay on the lessons of failure and the ethics of cross-cultural understanding.