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Hostage on the Yangtze : Britain, China and the Amethyst crisis of 1949 Murfett, Malcolm H 1991 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.823.6

The roles of Europe and China in the evolution of oecumenical science Needham, Joseph 1968 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available. 5/6(4:51)

Heavenly clockwork : the great astronomical clocks of medieval China Needham, Joseph 1960 • BOOK • 2 copies available. 681.113.91(51)

Andersen, Meyer and Company Limited of China : its history, its organization today 1931 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 347.72Anderson, Meyer

Smith goes to China : three Scots in the making of Britain's global empire /Jessica Hanser. "This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders - George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras - and uses them as lenses through which to explore the inner workings of Britain's imperial expansion and global network of trade, revealing how an unstable credit system and a financial crisis ultimately led to greater British intervention in India and China."--Provided by the publisher. 2019. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382/.0941/051

Rambles of a naturalist on the shores and waters of the China Sea : being observations in natural history Collingwood, Cuthbert Collingwood,-Baron, 1868 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 577.472(265)

Through the Yangste Gorges : or trade and travel in western China Little, Archibald John 1888 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(512)

China Sea pilot : vol 2 comprising the western and north-western coasts of Borneo, the Philippine Islands Great Britain. Hydrographic Department 1937 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 527.83

Admiralty tide tables : Indian Ocean and South China Sea (including tidal stream tables) United Kindgdom Hydrographic Office 2003 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 551.466.74

Fankwei : or, the San Jacinto in the seas of India, China and Japan Wood, William Maxwell 1859 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 623.82San Jacinto

British ships in China seas : 1700 to the present day /edited by Richard Harding, Adrian Jarvis and Alston "Papers presented at a conference held at the Merseyside Maritime Museum in September 2002, organised jointly by the Society for Nautical Research and National Museums on Merseyside"--T.p. 2004. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 382(42:51)

China Sea pilot : vol 2: the north-western coast of Borneo, the Philippine Islands from Cape Buliluyan United Kingdom Hydrographic Office 2004 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

Reminiscences of travel in China and India in 1848 De Salis, William Fane 1892 • FOLIO • 3 copies available. 76.047(26)

Cathay and the way thither : being a collection of medieval notices of China ed (tr) 1913 • BOOK • 1 copy available. 910.4(5)

China sea pilot. the north-western coast of Borneo, the Philippine Islands from Cape Buliluyan in Palawan Great Britain.-Hydrographic Office. 2012. • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 527.83

Fighting ships of the far east 1 : China and southest Asia 202 BC - AD 1419 Turnbull, Stephen Nov 2002 • PAMPHLET • 1 copy available.

An embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China Nieuhoff, John 1972 • OVERSIZE • 1 copy available. 347.71Dutch East India

Order in Council : China and Corea (Consular and Marriage Fees) Order Great Britain. Orders in Council : 1904, Edward VII 1904 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 341.81

The China clippers / Lubbock, Basil. 1914. Lubbock, Basil, 1914 • BOOK • 5 copies available. 094:629.123.136

Admiralty tide tables : Indian Ocean and South China Sea (including tidal stream tables) Great Britain.-Hydrographic Office 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 551.466.74

China trade and empire : Jardine, Matheson & Co. and the origins of British rule in Hong Kong, 1827-1843 A selection of the correspondence from the Jardine Matheson Archive written by or to William Jardine and James Matheson between the years 1827 and 1843. The letters document their business concerns around the tea and opium trades and British exports to China, as well as providing an insight into the commercial, political and economic context of the time. A detailed index of names provides access to individuals and ships connected with the business partners and their operations. The appendices include a glossary of terms, a list of East India Company Ships, their Managing Owners and Commanders 1829-1830, and a listing of the principal characters referenced in the letters. 2006. • BOOK • 1 copy available.

Journal of an embassy to the courts of Siam and Cochin China Crawfurd, John 1967 • FOLIO • 1 copy available. 910.4(593:597.3)"1821"

The perils of interpreting : the extraordinary lives of two translators between Qing China and the British "The 1793 British embassy to China, which led to Lord George Macartney's fraught encounter with the Qianlong emperor, has often been viewed as a clash of cultures fueled by the East's disinterest in the West. In The Perils of Interpreting, Henrietta Harrison presents a more nuanced picture, ingeniously shifting the historical lens to focus on Macartney's two interpreters at that meeting--Li Zibiao and George Thomas Staunton. Who were these two men? How did they intervene in the exchanges that they mediated? And what did these exchanges mean for them? From Galway to Chengde, and from political intrigues to personal encounters, Harrison reassesses a pivotal moment in relations between China and Britain. She shows that there were Chinese who were familiar with the West, but growing tensions endangered those who embraced both cultures and would eventually culminate in the Opium Wars. Harrison demonstrates that the Qing court's ignorance about the British did not simply happen, but was manufactured through the repression of cultural go-betweens like Li and Staunton. She traces Li's influence as Macartney's interpreter, the pressures Li faced in China as a result, and his later years in hiding. Staunton interpreted successfully for the British East India Company in Canton, but as Chinese anger grew against British imperial expansion in South Asia, he was compelled to flee to England. Harrison contends that in silencing expert voices, the Qing court missed an opportunity to gain insights that might have prevented a losing conflict with Britain. Uncovering the lives of two overlooked figures, The Perils of Interpreting offers an empathic argument for cross-cultural understanding in a connected world."--Provided by the publisher. 2021. • BOOK • 1 copy available. 327.5104109033

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