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Author : George SMITH (Bishop of Victoria (Hong Kong))
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1847
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0020173383
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1152 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : KBR:KBR0000092656
Author : Library company of Philadelphia
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1150 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555057437
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1156 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : NYPL:33433075914709
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1148 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z174873206
Author : Andrew Hillier
Publisher : City University of HK Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,5 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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11786378
Author : Carl T. Smith
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789622096882
Provided with a Western-style education and versed in the English language by missionaries, the 19th-century Chinese Christian was a man who stood between cultures. The author shows how this dual aspect of his thought and outlook enabled him to act as liaison with foreigners promoting trade and commerce.
Author : Bodleian Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1040 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Library catalogs
ISBN : KBNL:KBNL03000430434
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1036 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1851
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10484987
Author : Andrew Porter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 071902823X
This is the only book that addresses the relations between religion, Protestant missions, and empire building, linking together all three fields of study by taking as its starting point the early eighteenth century Anglican initiatives in colonial North America and the Caribbean. It considers how the early societies of the 1790s built on this inheritance, and extended their own interests to the Pacific, India, the Far East, and Africa. Fluctuations in the vigor and commitment of the missions, changing missionary theologies, and the emergence of alternative missionary strategies, are all examined for their impact on imperial expansion. Other themes include the international character of the missionary movement, Christianity's encounter with Islam, and major figures such as David Livingstone, the state and politics, and humanitarianism, all of which are viewed in a fresh light.
Author : Boston Public Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Boston (Mass.)
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027886402
Author : John M. CARROLL,John M Carroll
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674029231
In Edge of Empires, Carroll situates Hong Kong squarely within the framework of both Chinese and British colonial history, while exploring larger questions about the meaning and implications of colonialism in modern history.
Author : Vaudine England
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781982184513
A timely, well-researched, and vibrant new history of Hong Kong that reveals the untold stories of the diverse peoples who have made it a multicultural world metropolis—and whose freedoms are endangered today. Hong Kong has always been many cities to many people: a seaport, a gateway to an empire, a place where fortunes can be dramatically made or lost, a place to disappear and reinvent oneself, and a mixing pot of diverse populations from literally everywhere around the globe. A British Crown Colony for 155 years, Hong Kong is now ruled by the Chinese Communist Party. Here, renowned journalist Vaudine England delves into Hong Kong’s complex history and its people—diverse, multi-cultural, cosmopolitan—who have made this one-time fishing village into the world port city it is today. Rather than a traditional history describing a town led by British Governors or a mere offshoot of a collapsing Chinese empire, Fortune’s Bazaar is the first thorough examination of the varied peoples who made Hong Kong. While British traders and Asian merchants had long been busy in the Indian and South East Asian seas, there were many from different cultures and ethnic backgrounds who arrived in Hong Kong, met and married—despite all taboos—and created a distinct community. Many of Hong Kong’s most influential figures during its first century as a city were neither British nor Chinese—they were Malay or Indian, Jewish or Armenian, Parsi or Portuguese, Eurasian or Chindian—or simply, Hong Kongers. England describes those overlooked in history including the opium-traders who built synagogues or churches, ship-owners carrying gold-rush migrants, property tycoons, and more. Here, too, is the visionary who plumbed Hong Kong’s harbor depths to spur reclamation, the half-Dutch Chinese gentleman with two wives who was knighted by Queen Victoria, and the landscape gardeners who settled Kowloon and became millionaires. A story of empire, race, and sex, Fortune’s Bazaar combines deep archival research and oral history to present a vivid history of a special place—a unique city made by diverse people of the world, whose part in its creation has never been properly told until now.
Author : Peniel Rajkumar
Publisher : SPCK
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780281066728
This book provides an introduction to theological thought on the Asian continent. It is ecumenical in scope with emphasis on the contemporary concerns within Asian theology and some attention to the development of these theologies. Regional and subject specialists will capture the ongoing conversation on Asian theology, incorporating new emphases, thrusts and trends, thus making the book a fresh and engaging introduction to Christian theology in Asia.
