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Author : George Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : China
ISBN : BSB:BSB10469378
Author : George Smith
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382331788
Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author : George Smith
Publisher : Nabu Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1289372055
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Author : George Smith
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1377416372
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Author : George Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 133199618X
Excerpt from A Narrative of an Exploratory Visit to Each of the Consular Cities of China, and to the Islands of Hong Kong and Chusan, in Behalf of the Church Missionary Society, in the Years 1844, 1845, 1846 The Author of the following pages deems it right, at the very outset, to state, that this volume is not a mere narrative of missionary proceedings. The primary object of his tour among the newly-opened cities of China was to explore the ground, and to prepare the way for other missionaries of the Church of England, by collecting statistical facts, by recording general observations, and by furnishing detailed data for rightly estimating the moral, social, and political condition of that peculiar nation. The reader must therefore be prepared to find in this volume a variety of topics handled, and of information supplied, which might appear less appropriate in a book professedly devoted to a strict narrative of missionary work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : George Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1843
Category : China
ISBN : OCLC:1101303995
Author : George Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : China
ISBN : HARVARD:32044037722246
Author : George Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-18
Category : History
ISBN : 1021722073
Author : Andrew Hillier
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-16
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789629376772
Following the ending of the First Opium War and the signing of the Treaty of Nanjing in 1842, Britain opened five treaty ports on the Chinese mainland in the cities now known as Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Ningbo, Shanghai, and Xiamen. Foreigners were allowed for the first time to live and work normally in these cities under the eyes of their state’s consul. In establishing this presence, consular staff and their families faced numerous challenges, including unsuitable accommodation, illness, hostile local authorities, attacks from militias and pirates, while at the same time adjusting to an unfamiliar language and culture. Henrietta Alcock (1812–1853), the first wife of the British Consul, Rutherford Alcock, was little-known until an album of sketches and watercolours depicting her life in China came to light. Acquired by the Martyn Gregory Gallery, London in the early 1990s, the works in the Alcock Album feature picturesque natural landscapes, traditional Chinese architecture, and scenes of consular life. Drawing on more than one hundred images, this richly illustrated volume brings her out of the shadows, providing a unique picture of the treaty port world in its very earliest days and of Henrietta as an amateur artist, the wife of a consul and, most importantly, a woman in empire.
Author : Hsien-ch'un Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137598134
This book explores how steam engine technology was transferred into nineteenth-century China in the second half of the nineteenth century by focusing on the transmission of knowledge and skills. It takes on the long-term problem in historiography that puts too much emphasis on politics but ignores the techno-scientific and institutional requirements for launching such an endeavor. It examines how translations broke linguistic and conceptual barriers and brought new a understanding of heat to the Chinese readership. It also explores how the Fuzhou Navy Yard’s shipbuilding and training program trained China’s first generation of shipbuilding workers and engineers. It argues that conservatism against technology was not to blame for China’s slow development in steamship building. Rather, it was government officials’ failure to realize the scale of institutional and techno-scientific changes required in importing and disperse new knowledge and skills.
Author : Peter Siemund,Jakob R.E. Leimgruber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780429873911
This volume sets out to investigate the linguistic ecologies of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Dubai, with chapters that combine empirical and theoretical approaches to the sociolinguistics of multilingualism. One important feature of this publication is that the five parts of the collection deal with such key issues as the historical dimension, language policies and language planning, contemporary societal multilingualism, multilingual language acquisition, and the localized Englishes of global cities. The first four sections of the volume provide a multi-levelled and finely-detailed description of multilingual diversity of three global cities, while the final section discusses postcolonial Englishes in the context of multilingual language acquisition and language contact.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN4JJ1
Author : Tristram Hunt
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141957531
From Tristram Hunt, award-winning author of The Frock-Coated Communist and leading UK politician, Ten Cities that Made an Empire presents a new approach to Britain's imperial past through the cities that epitomised it The final embers of the British Empire are dying, but its legacy remains in the lives and structures of the cities which it shaped. Here Tristram Hunt examines the stories and defining ideas of ten of the most important: Boston, Bridgetown, Dublin, Cape Town, Calcutta, Hong Kong, Bombay, Melbourne, New Delhi, and twentieth-century Liverpool. Rejecting binary views of the British Empire as 'very good' or 'very bad', Hunt uses an exceptional array of primary accounts and personal reflection to chart the processes of exchange and adaptation that collectively shaped the colonial experience - and, in turn, transformed the culture, economy and identity of the British Isles. TRISTRAM HUNT is one of Britain's best known historians. Since 2010 he has been the MP for Stoke-on-Trent Central, and in October 2013 was made Shadow Secretary of State for Education. He is a senior lecturer in British history at Queen Mary, University of London, and has written numerous series for radio and television. He is also a regular contributor to the Times, Guardian and Observer. His previous books include The English Civil War at First Hand, Building Jerusalem, and The Frock-Coated Communist: The Revolutionary Life of Friedrich Engels, which was published in more than a dozen languages. Praise for The Frock-Coated Communist: 'Beautifully written and consistently engaging' - Independent 'An excellent book ... Hunt has a mastery of 19th-century British culture and European political thought' - Robert Service, Sunday Times 'Thoughtful and engaging' - Telegraph Review
Author : Peter Bell Edinburgh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019193908
Author : John Philip Newman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Babylonia
ISBN : HARVARD:32044037721263
