Captain Elliot And The Founding Of Hong Kong
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Captain Elliot And The Founding Of Hong Kong
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Author : Jon Bursey
language : en
Publisher: Grub Street Publishers
Release Date : 2018-03-30
Captain Elliot And The Founding Of Hong Kong written by Jon Bursey and has been published by Grub Street Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-30 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.
The Taking Of Hong Kong
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Author : Susanna Hoe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11
The Taking Of Hong Kong written by Susanna Hoe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Social Science categories.
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.
Europe In China
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Author : Ernest John Eitel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Europe In China written by Ernest John Eitel and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with British categories.
A Biographical Sketch Book Of Early Hong Kong
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Author : G. B. Endacott
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2005-01-01
A Biographical Sketch Book Of Early Hong Kong written by G. B. Endacott and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-01 with History categories.
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.
China
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Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1838
China written by Great Britain. Foreign Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1838 with categories.
Charles Elliot R N 1801 1875
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Author : Clagette Blake
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1960
Charles Elliot R N 1801 1875 written by Clagette Blake and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1960 with Caribbean Area categories.
"From 1842 to 1846, Elliot was charge d'affaires and consul general in the Republic of Texas"--Wikipedia.
China Trade And Empire
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Author : Alain Le Pichon
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2006-08-10
China Trade And Empire written by Alain Le Pichon and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-08-10 with Business & Economics categories.
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 Nemesis In China
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Author : William Dallas Bernard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1846
The Nemesis In China written by William Dallas Bernard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1846 with China categories.
Macao And The British 1637 1842
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Author : Austin Coates
language : en
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
Macao And The British 1637 1842 written by Austin Coates and has been published by Hong Kong University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Political Science categories.
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
Narrative Of The Expedition To China From The Commencement Of The War To The Present Period
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Author : John Elliot Bingham
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1842
Narrative Of The Expedition To China From The Commencement Of The War To The Present Period written by John Elliot Bingham and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1842 with China categories.