Author : Earl Hampton Pritchard
Publisher : Urbana : University of Illinois
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 20,61 MB
Release : 1930
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Earl Hampton Pritchard
Publisher :
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 42,21 MB
Release : 1930
Category : China
ISBN :
Author : Donald Frederick Lach
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 680 pages
File Size : 50,70 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Asia
ISBN : 9780226467542
Author : Xin Liu
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 37,73 MB
Release : 2022-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1000637565
Anglo-Chinese Encounters Before the Opium War: A Tale of Two Empires Over Two Centuries studies the fascinating encounters between the two historic empires from Queen Elizabeth I’s first letter to the Ming Emperor Wanli in 1583, to Lord Palmerston’s letter to the Minister of China in 1840. Starting with Queen Elizabeth I’s letter to the Chinese Emperor and ending with the letter from Lord Palmerston to the Minister of China just before the Opium War, this book explores the long journey in between from cultural diplomacy to gunboat diplomacy. It interweaves the most known diplomatic efforts at the official level with the much unknown intellectual interactions at the people-to-people level, from missionaries to scholars, from merchants to travelers and from artists to scientists. This book adopts a novel "mirror" approach by pairing and comparing people, texts, commodities, artworks, architecture, ideologies, operating systems and world views of the two empires. Using letters, gifts and traded goods as fulcrums, and by adopting these unique lenses, it puts China into the world history narratives to contextualise Anglo-Chinese relations, thus providing a fresh analysis of the surviving evidence. Xin Liu casts a new light on understanding the Sino-centric and Anglo-centric world views in driving the complex relations between the two empires, and the reversals of power shifts that are still unfolding today. The book is not intended for specialists in history, but a general audience wishing to learn more about China’s historical engagement with the world.
Author : Frederic Delano Grant, Jr.
Publisher : Martinus Nijhoff Publishers
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9004276564
Modern bank insurance is traced to its roots in The Chinese Cornerstone of Modern Banking: The Canton Guaranty System and the Origins of Bank Deposit Insurance 1780-1933. Frederic Delano Grant, Jr. provides new understandings of the Canton System, collective responsibility for debt at Canton, and the history of deposit insurance. The Canton Guaranty System inspired radical reform in New York in 1829 – the ancestor of all modern deposit insurance. Yet it was never the success imagined, and soon failed. In the Opium War, the Chinese government as implicit guarantor was forced to pay its debts in full on 23 July 1843. The afflictions of the Chinese system, including moral hazard, too big to fail, and unenforced laws, remain familiar today.
Author : Betty Peh-T'I Wei
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 2006-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789622097858
This book explores the life and work of Ruan Yuan (1764–1849), a scholar-official of renown in mid-Qing China prior to the Opium War, before traditional institutions and values became altered by incursions from the West. His distinction as an official, scholar, and patron of learning has been recognized by both his contemporaries and modern scholars. He was also exulted as an honest official and an exemplary man of the 'Confucian persuasion'. His name is mentioned in almost all the works on Qing history or Chinese classics because of the wide range of his research and publications. A number of these publications are still being reprinted today. This is the first full-length biography of Ruan Yuan in English, and the only one focusing on all aspects of the man's life and work in the context of his time. It follows Ruan Yuan from his childhood in Yangzhou, expansion of his intellectual horizons and political network in Beijing, his long service in the provinces handling some of the most thorny issues of the day in security and control, to the glory as a senior statesman in the capital, and retirement in Yangzhou.
Author : Howard T Fry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 19,26 MB
Release : 2013-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 113515676X
First Published in 1970. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Jane T. Merritt
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 25,13 MB
Release : 2017-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1421421534
This fascinating look at the unpredictable path of a single commodity will change the way readers look at both tea and the emergence of America.
Author : Weng Eang Cheong
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 40,34 MB
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136785817
This study eschews the uncritical acceptance of secondary sources that has characterized studies in this field, going back to and reinterpreting previously neglected primary sources, thereby enabling it to chart linkages between the European and Asian trades that have been regarded as parallel but unrelated (or at best competing) activities. In so doing, the work sheds new light on this crucial period.
Author : Ralf Hertel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317147197
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.
