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Britain's Second Embassy to China : Lord Amherst's 'Special Mission' to the Jiaqing Emperor In 1816
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  
Canberra, : ANU Press, 2021
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China unbound : evolving perspectives on the Chinese past / / Paul A. Cohen
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.  
London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003
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China unbound : evolving perspectives on the Chinese past / / Paul A. Cohen
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.  
London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003
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China unbound : evolving perspectives on the Chinese past / / Paul A. Cohen
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.  
London ; ; New York : , : RoutledgeCurzon, , 2003
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The clash of empires [[electronic resource] ] : the invention of China in modern world making / / Lydia H. Liu
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  
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
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  
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
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  
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
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  
Singapore, : Silkroad Press, 2013
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Foreign communities in Hong Kong, 1840s-1950s [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Cindy Yik-yi Chu
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
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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