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East sails West : the voyage of the Keying, 1846-1855 /Stephen Davies. In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the British, manned by a Chinese and European crew, and carrying a traveling exhibition of Chinese items, the Keying had a troubled voyage. After quarrels on the way and a diversion to New York, culminating in a legal dispute over arrears of wages for Chinese members of the crew, it finally reached London in 1848, where it went on exhibition on the River Thames until 1853. It was then auctioned off, towed to Liverpool, and finally broken up. In this account of the ship, the crew and the voyage, Stephen Davies tells a story of missed opportunities, with an erratic course, overambitious aims, and achievements born of lucky breaks -- a microcosm, in fact, of early Hong Kong and of the relations between China and the West. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.45

Chinnery : the man and the legend Hutcheon, Robin 1974 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7Chinnery

Setting sails : a tribute to the Chinese junk /by Derek Maitland ; photographed by Nik Wheeler. Maitland, Derek, 1981. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123.19(51)

The role of states in maritime employment and safety : a legal and economic study Li, K X 2001 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 34:656.61:331

Notes de cartographie chinoise : une carte chinoise de 1594 a la Bibliotheque Nationale /by M Destombes. Destombes, Marcel, 1976 • PAMPHLET • 2 copies available. 528.9(51)"1594"

HMS Terrible & her Naval Brigades : a cruiser & her campaigns during the Boer War and Boxer Rebellion :The commission of HMS Terrible, 1898-1902 :The White Era /George Crowe ; Fred T. Jane. "The battles of the Nile and Trafalgar in the opening years of the 19th century demonstrated that the Royal Navy was an unbeatable international force. The lessons of that period were so well understood by the world that the British Navy did not fight another major battle on the high seas until Jutland during the First World War. Britain ruled the waves for a century as the nation's imperial and colonial aspirations were fulfilled and the Royal Navy became a de facto international police force. The larger wars of the century were fought on land and demanded little of British naval resources. Naval guns and their expert gunners, however, were a valuable asset that could be deployed to significant effect almost anywhere the British Army was engaged. Naval Brigades were created and went on to see action in the Crimea, the Indian Mutiny, the Zulu War, the Boer War and towards the close of the 19th century as part of the force dispatched to China to suppress the Boxer uprising and relieve the beleaguered legations in Peking. This unique Leonaur two-in-one volume contains exciting narratives of the brigade of H.M.S. Terrible, a cruiser of the 'Powerful' class, during the Second Boer War, where it played a significant role in the relief of Ladysmith, and in China during the Boxer Rebellion. Also included is an interesting description of the initiatives which led to the building of the 'Powerful' class."--Provided by the publisher. [2013]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82TERRIBLE

The last journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He / Sheng-Wei Wang. "From 1405, in order to maintain and expand the Ming Dynasty's tributary system, Yongle Emperor Zhu Di (reigning 1402-1424) and Xuande Emperor Zhu Zhanji (reigning 1425-1435) ordered eunuch Zheng He to lead giant fleets across the seas. But soon after Zheng He's seventh and last voyage in the 1430s, the Ming emperors put an end to this activity and ordered all records of previous voyages to be destroyed. Chinese writer Luo Maodeng, knowing the history of some of these voyages, wished to preserve a record of them, but, conscious of the possible penalty, decided to record the facts "under a veil", in his 1597 novel, An Account of the Western World Voyage of the San Bao Eunuch. This is what Dr. Sheng-Wei Wang has concluded after reading and analysing Luo's novel. Her book, The last journey of the San Bao Eunuch, Admiral Zheng He, shows the methodology and evidential arguments by which she has sought to lift the veil and the conclusions she suggests, including the derivation of the complete trans-Atlantic navigational routes and timelines of that last journey and the idea that Zheng He's last expedition plausibly reached the ancient American Indian city, Cahokia, in the U.S. central Mississippi Valley in late autumn, 1433, long before Christopher Columbus set foot for the first time in the Americas. She supports the hotly debated view that Ming Chinese sailors and ships reached farther than previously accepted in modern times and calls for further research. She hopes this book will become an important step in bridging the gap in our understanding of ancient China-America history in the era before the Age of Discovery. An interesting contribution to an ongoing debate."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Pots, prints and politics : ceramics with an agenda, from the 14th to the 20th century /edited by Patricia F. Ferguson. "From the introduction of woodblock printing in China to the development of copper-plate engraving in Europe, the print medium has been used around the world to circulate knowledge. Ceramic artists across time and cultures have adapted these graphic sources as painted or transfer-printed images applied onto glazed or unglazed surfaces to express political and social issues including propaganda, self-promotion, piety, gender, national and regional identities. Long before photography, printers also included pots in engravings or other two-dimensional techniques which have broadened scholarship and encouraged debate. Pots, Prints and Politics examines how European and Asian ceramics traditionally associated with the domestic sphere have been used by potters to challenge convention and tackle serious issues from the 14th to the 20th century. Using the British Museum's world-renowned ceramics and prints collections as a base, the authors have challenged and interrogated a variety of ceramic objects - from teapots to chamber pots - to discover new meanings that are as relevant today as they were when they were first conceived."--Provided by the publisher. 2021 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 738.09

Chinese junks and other native craft / Donnelly, Ivon A. 1924. Donnelly, Ivon A 1924 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 629.123.19(51)

Qian xing guo yang : Wanli shi dai de hai mao chuan qi = Sailing the seven seas : legend of Ming maritime trade during Wanli era /Guangdong Sheng bo wu guan bian. 2015. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. txt

Images of the Canton factories 1760-1822 : reading history in art /Paul A. Van Dyke and Maria Kar-Wing Mok. "Hundreds of Chinese export paintings of Canton trading houses and shopping streets are in museums and private collections throughout the world, and scholars of art and history have often questioned the reliability of these historical paintings. In this illustrated volume, Paul Van Dyke and Maria Mok examine these Chinese export paintings by matching the changes in the images with new historical data collected from various archives. Many factory paintings are reliable historical records in their own right and can be dated to a single year. Dating images with such precision was not possible in the past owing to insufficient information on the scenes. The new findings in this volume provide unprecedented opportunities to re-date many art works and prove that images of the Canton factories painted on canvas by Chinese artists are far more trustworthy than what scholars have believed in the past."--Provided by the publisher. [2015]. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 7.032.11

Moving stars changing scenes : gems of the ancient Chinese astronomy relics = Xing yi wu huan : Zhongguo gu dai tian wen wen wu jing hua /[author Yip Chee-kuen ; editor Lawrence W.K. Lee ; English translation Lawrence W.K. Lee, Ann L.F. Hui]. Yip, Chee-kuen 2006. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 681.11(512.317)

[Dinner menu from the M. S. "Tjiluwah", 10 March 1956 : Royal Interocean Lines. 1956] • EPHEMERA • 1 copy available. 347.792ROYAL INTEROCEAN(083.815)"1956"

Three splendid little wars : the diaries of Joseph Knefler Taussig, 1898-1901 /edited by Evelyn M. Cherpak. Taussig, Joseph K.-(Joseph Knefler), 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 973.8/9

East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India

The India directory : or directions for sailing to and from the East Indies, China, Australia, and the Horsburgh, James 1841 • RARE-BOOK • 3 copies available. 527.83(264:267)

Great Britain and the origins of the Pacific War : a study of British policy in East Asia 1937-1941 Lowe, Peter 1977 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 940.542.6

East meets West : original records of western traders, travellers, missionaries and diplomats to 1852. 2007. • MICROFILM • 1 copy available. 347.71East India

Sheng shi ju shou tian bao fang hua : Yuanmingyuan shou shou ji wen wu zhan /Chen Libi = The Grand gathering of the century : zodiac heads from the Yuanmingyuan and important treasures / edited by Libby Lai-pik Chan Chan, Libby Lai-pik 2023 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. sti

Ostindiefararen Gèotheborg seglar igen = The Swedish ship Gèotheborg sails again /Ingrid Arensberg. Arensberg, Ingrid. 2009 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 629.123GOTHEBORG

The P&O Company : flagships of imperialism Follows the history of the P&O company from its origins to 1867, and how, as a government contractor, its major financial successes and failures linked to the wider politics of the British Empire. After its origins in Ireland, the company expanded into the Mediterranean, India, China and Australia. Flagships of Imperalism places this firmly in the context of the Empire, such as noting how P&O faced competition from rival companies in the new territories and suffered losses over its involvement in the China opium trade. Also covers the development of P&O's financial infrastructure, the government contracts the company received, its founders' reaction to technological advances, and the shareholding base. 1981 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 061.3

Pierre Bernard Milius : last commander of the Baudin Expedition : the journal 1800-1804 /Pierre Bernard Milius ; translated from the French and annotated by Kate Pratt ; edited by Peter Hambly ; with an introduction by Anthony J. Brown. Milius, Pierre Bernard, 2013. • BOOK • 2 copies available. 92MILIUS

Hongkongers in the British Armed Forces, 1860 -1997 / Kwong Chi Man. "This book is the first systematic study of the experience of the Hong Kong servicemen in the British armed forces during the colonial period. It puts the Hong Kong servicemen in the contexts of Hong Kong history, the history of overseas Chinese, the history of the British Empire, and the military history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. It details the agency of Hongkongers, who were more often than not portrayed as victims or beneficiaries during the two world wars and the Cold War, and highlights the relevance of Hong Kong in the modern history of East Asia. It also looks at how the intertwined issues of class and race played out among these servicemen, who came from a variety of ethnic, cultural, and social backgrounds. It reveals the complexity of the colonial Hong Kong society by illustrating the interplay between the colonisers and the colonised of different classes and ethnicities, and informs the ongoing discussion about colonial Hong Kong by providing concrete examples of the collaboration between ethnic groups."-- 2022. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.2/23095125

Fortune's bazaar : the making of Hong Kong /Vaudine England. "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 people from everywhere around the globe. A British Crown Colony for 155 years, Hong Kong is now ruled by the Chinese Communist Party who continues to threaten its democracy and put its rich legacy at risk. Here, renowned journalist Vaudine England delves into Hong Kong's complex history and its people - multicultural, cosmopolitan - who have made this one-time fishing village into the world port city it is today. Fortune's Bazaar is the first thorough examination of the varied peoples who made Hong Kong. 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. Those overlooked in history, including the opium-traders who built synagogues or churches, ship-owners carrying gold-rush migrants, property tycoons, and more, are brought to light. 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."-- 2023. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 951.2506

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