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Elizabethan globalism : England, China and the rainbow portrait /Matthew Dimmock. "Challenging the myth of Elizabethan England as insular and xenophobic, this revelatory study sheds light on how the nation's growing global encounters - from the Caribbean to Asia - created an interest and curiosity in the wider world that resonated deeply throughout society. Matthew Dimmock reconstructs an extraordinary housewarming party thrown at the newly built Cecil House in London in 1602 for Elizabeth I where a stunning display of Chinese porcelain served as a physical manifestation of how global trade and diplomacy had led to a new appreciation of foreign cultures. This party was also the likely inspiration for Elizabeth's celebrated Rainbow Portrait, an image that Dimmock describes as a carefully orchestrated vision of England's emerging ambitions for its engagements with the rest of the world. Bringing together an eclectic variety of sources including play texts, inventories, and artifacts, this extensively researched volume presents a picture of early modern England as an outward-looking nation intoxicated by what the world had to offer."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 942.05/5
Clerks and craftsmen in China and the west : lectures and addresses on the history of science and technology Needham, Joseph 1970 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 5/6(51)
The world's navies in the Boxer rebellion (China, 1900) Dix, C C 1905 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.49"1900"(51)
The commission of HMS Eclipse, China station, 1901-1904 Dunslow, S E 1904 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.822.3(42)"19"
The past and future of British relations in China Osborn, Sherard 1860 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(42:51)
The old China trade / by Foster Rhea Dulles. Dulles, Foster Rhea 1974. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(51:73)"17/18"
The Opium War : being recollections of service in China Cunynghame, Arthur 1972 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 355.48"1840/1842"(51)
Adventurous pursuits : Americans and the China trade 1784-1844 Christman, Margaret C S 1984 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 061.43(083.83)
The traveller's guide to India, China and the east King, Henry S (comp) 1881 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 915(026)
Maritime security in the South China Sea : regional implications and international cooperation /edited c2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 341.362.1(265.72)"20"
The China voyage : a Pacific quest by bamboo raft Severin, Tim 1994 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(265)"1993"
China charts the world : Hsu Chi-Yu and his geography of 1848 Drake, Fred W 1975 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 913(100)
The Development of iron and steel technology in China Needham, Joseph 1964 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 669.1(51)
River road to China : the Mekong River expedition 1866-1873 Osborne, Milton 1975 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(51)"1866/1873"
Adventures to China : Americans in the southern oceans 1792-1812 Kirker, James 1970 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 639.247.453
Formosan sea-going raft and its origin in ancient China Shun-Sheng, Ling 1956 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 629.121(529.1)
The China trade : export paintings, furniture, silver and other objects Crossman, Carl L 1972 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 7(51)
The English in China : being an account of the intercourse and relations between England and China from Eames, James Bromley 1909 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(42:51)
A picturesque voyage to India by the way of China Daniell, Thomas 1810 • RARE-FOLIO • 1 copy available. 76.035(42)
China Sea pilot : vol 3 comprising the coast of China from Fokai Point to Yalu Chiang or Amnok Kang; Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1954 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 527.83
China in the grip of the Reds : sketches of the extravagant effort made by Soviet Russia to set up and Pick, Eugene 1927 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 951.091
KPM : Koninklijke Paketvaart Maatschappij (1891-1941) with the Java-China-Japan Line to 1970 Cockrill, Philip 1982 • • 1 copy available. 656.86:629.123.3
Glass exchange between Europe and China, 1550-1800 : diplomatic, mercantile and technological interactions "In this study, Emily Byrne Curtis explores as her subject lenses, spectacles, aventurine glass, and windows found in China from the sixteenth century. She traces their technological development back to the glassworks in Murano, Venice, and explores their significance in terms of Venice's commerce with China." "Because glassware also figured among the gifts which three papal legates from the Vatican presented to the Kangxi and Yongzheng emperors, the author examines many documents from the archives in Rome and the Vatican; the study therefore touches, to an extent, on the history of the Catholic Church in China. Curtis also discusses in the volume some contemporary Chinese references and verses to European glassware, and in the case of enamel materials, she discloses the pronounced effect their use had upon the decor of Chinese porcelains."--Jacket. 2009. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 748(4:5)"1550/1800"
China Sea pilot : vol 3 comprising the coast of China from Fu-chi chiao to Yalu chiang or Amnok kang; Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1968 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83