Britain's Second Embassy to China : Lord Amherst's 'Special Mission' to the Jiaqing Emperor In 1816 |
Autore | Stevenson Caroline |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Canberra, : ANU Press, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (404 pages) |
Soggetto topico |
British & Irish history
Asian history Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900 |
Soggetto non controllato |
China
Britain British Empire William Pitt Amherst Canton Kowtow tributary system |
ISBN | 1-76046-409-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Terminology and Romanisation and Monetary Values -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Political Setting of the Amherst Embassy -- 3. Origins of the Amherst Embassy: Canton and Sir George Thomas Staunton -- 4. The View from London: John Barrow and Lord William Pitt Amherst -- 5. Amherst's Preparations for the Embassy -- 6. The Voyage from Portsmouth to 'Hong Kong' -- 7. Up the Coast of China and Arrival at Tianjin -- 8. The Imperial Banquet of 13 August 1816 and Progress to Tongzhou -- 9. To Yuanmingyuan, Reception and Dismissal -- 10. Overland to Canton: The British Cultural Encounter with China -- 11. Aftermath: Britain's Reaction to the Failure of the Amherst Embassy -- 12. Retrospect: Reflections on the Amherst Embassy -- Bibliography -- Appendix A: List of Persons and Their Salaries -- Appendix B: Presents and Cost of the Amherst Embassy -- Appendix C: The Total Cost of the Amherst Embassy -- Appendix D: Ball's Secret Report (Commissioner of Teas at Canton) -- Appendix E: List of Chinese Officials Responsible for the Conduct of the Amherst Embassy -- Appendix F: Imperial Edict: 'Ceremonies to Be Observed at the Audience of Leave' -- Appendix G: Substance of an Edict Seen on the Walls of a Building in the 8th Moon of the 21st Year of Kia King -- Appendix H: Itinerary of the Amherst Embassy -- Appendix I: Morrison's Letters to Amherst (1821) -- Index. |
Altri titoli varianti | Britain's Second Embassy to China |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910440650303321 |
Stevenson Caroline
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China unbound : evolving perspectives on the Chinese past / / Paul A. Cohen |
Autore | Cohen Paul A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Disciplina | 951.033 |
Collana | Critical Asian scholarship |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-203-41200-1
1-280-07286-5 0-203-40329-0 1-134-42837-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: China unbound; Wang Tao in a changing world; Moving beyond ~Tradition and Modernity~; New perspectives on the Boxers: the view from anthropology; Boxers, Christians, and the gods: the Boxer conflict of 1900 as a religious war; Ambiguities of a watershed date: the 1949 divide in Chinese history; Remembering and forgetting national humiliation in twentieth-century China; Revisiting Discovering History in China; Three ways of knowing the past; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450162503321 |
Cohen Paul A.
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London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003 | ||
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China unbound : evolving perspectives on the Chinese past / / Paul A. Cohen |
Autore | Cohen Paul A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Disciplina | 951.033 |
Collana | Critical Asian scholarship |
ISBN |
1-134-42836-7
0-203-41200-1 1-280-07286-5 0-203-40329-0 1-134-42837-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: China unbound; Wang Tao in a changing world; Moving beyond ~Tradition and Modernity~; New perspectives on the Boxers: the view from anthropology; Boxers, Christians, and the gods: the Boxer conflict of 1900 as a religious war; Ambiguities of a watershed date: the 1949 divide in Chinese history; Remembering and forgetting national humiliation in twentieth-century China; Revisiting Discovering History in China; Three ways of knowing the past; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783607003321 |
Cohen Paul A.
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London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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China unbound : evolving perspectives on the Chinese past / / Paul A. Cohen |
Autore | Cohen Paul A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (239 p.) |
Disciplina | 951.033 |
Collana | Critical Asian scholarship |
ISBN |
1-134-42836-7
0-203-41200-1 1-280-07286-5 0-203-40329-0 1-134-42837-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: China unbound; Wang Tao in a changing world; Moving beyond ~Tradition and Modernity~; New perspectives on the Boxers: the view from anthropology; Boxers, Christians, and the gods: the Boxer conflict of 1900 as a religious war; Ambiguities of a watershed date: the 1949 divide in Chinese history; Remembering and forgetting national humiliation in twentieth-century China; Revisiting Discovering History in China; Three ways of knowing the past; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827725103321 |
Cohen Paul A.
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The clash of empires [[electronic resource] ] : the invention of China in modern world making / / Lydia H. Liu |
Autore | Liu Lydia He |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 318 p. : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 951/.034 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Asia / China |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-674-04029-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Civilizations Do Not Clash; Empires Do -- 1 The Semiotic Turn of International Politics -- 2 The Birth of a Super-Sign -- 3 Figuring Sovereignty -- 4 Translating International Law -- 5 The Secret of Her Greatness -- 6 The Sovereign Subject of Grammar -- Conclusion: The Emperor's Empty Throne -- Appendix: Lin Zexu's Communication to Queen Victoria -- Notes -- Glossary of Selected Chinese Characters -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454674003321 |
Liu Lydia He
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 | ||
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The clash of empires [[electronic resource] ] : the invention of China in modern world making / / Lydia H. Liu |
Autore | Liu Lydia He |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 318 p. : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 951/.034 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Asia / China |
ISBN | 0-674-04029-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Civilizations Do Not Clash; Empires Do -- 1 The Semiotic Turn of International Politics -- 2 The Birth of a Super-Sign -- 3 Figuring Sovereignty -- 4 Translating International Law -- 5 The Secret of Her Greatness -- 6 The Sovereign Subject of Grammar -- Conclusion: The Emperor's Empty Throne -- Appendix: Lin Zexu's Communication to Queen Victoria -- Notes -- Glossary of Selected Chinese Characters -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778185803321 |
Liu Lydia He
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The clash of empires [[electronic resource] ] : the invention of China in modern world making / / Lydia H. Liu |
Autore | Liu Lydia He |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 |
Descrizione fisica | xiii, 318 p. : ill., maps |
Disciplina | 951/.034 |
Soggetto topico | HISTORY / Asia / China |
ISBN | 0-674-04029-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Civilizations Do Not Clash; Empires Do -- 1 The Semiotic Turn of International Politics -- 2 The Birth of a Super-Sign -- 3 Figuring Sovereignty -- 4 Translating International Law -- 5 The Secret of Her Greatness -- 6 The Sovereign Subject of Grammar -- Conclusion: The Emperor's Empty Throne -- Appendix: Lin Zexu's Communication to Queen Victoria -- Notes -- Glossary of Selected Chinese Characters -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910813869403321 |
Liu Lydia He
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Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 2004 | ||
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The eastward dissemination of western learning in the late Qing dynasty [[electronic resource] ] . Volume 1 / / Xiong Yuezhi |
Autore | Xiong Yuezhi |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Singapore, : Silkroad Press, 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
Disciplina | 951 |
Collana | Eastward dissemination of western learning in the late Qing dynasty |
Soggetto topico | Education - China - History - 19th century |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 981-4332-79-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Appendix""; ""Notes""; ""Glossary""; ""References""; ""Index"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910453888203321 |
Xiong Yuezhi
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Singapore, : Silkroad Press, 2013 | ||
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Foreign communities in Hong Kong, 1840s-1950s [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2005.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.8/0095125/09034 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ChuCindy Yik-yi |
Soggetto topico | Ethnic groups - China - Hong Kong |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-281-36871-7
9786611368715 1-4039-8055-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Preface; A Note on Romanization; About the Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Early Beginnings of British Community (1841-1898); 3 British Attitudes toward Hong Kong in the Nineteenth Century; 4 Nineteenth-Century German Community; 5 Catholic Church between Two World Wars; 6 Making of a Japanese Community in Prewar Period (1841-1941); 7 Stanley Civilian Internment Camp during Japanese Occupation; 8 Migrants from India and Their Relations with British and Chinese Residents; 9 American "China Hands" in the 1950's; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910450868103321 |
New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005 | ||
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Foreign communities in Hong Kong, 1840s-1950s [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu |
Edizione | [1st ed. 2005.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (224 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.8/0095125/09034 |
Altri autori (Persone) | ChuCindy Yik-yi |
Soggetto topico | Ethnic groups - China - Hong Kong |
ISBN |
1-281-36871-7
9786611368715 1-4039-8055-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Cover; Contents; Preface; A Note on Romanization; About the Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Early Beginnings of British Community (1841-1898); 3 British Attitudes toward Hong Kong in the Nineteenth Century; 4 Nineteenth-Century German Community; 5 Catholic Church between Two World Wars; 6 Making of a Japanese Community in Prewar Period (1841-1941); 7 Stanley Civilian Internment Camp during Japanese Occupation; 8 Migrants from India and Their Relations with British and Chinese Residents; 9 American "China Hands" in the 1950's; Suggestions for Further Reading; Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784159703321 |
New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, c2005 | ||
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