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The Fan-Qui in China - Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century China (Hardcover)
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The Fan-Qui in China - Everyday Life in Nineteenth-Century China (Hardcover)
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This three-volume set presents one of the most detailed
descriptions of early 19th-century China by a Western visitor,
Charles Toogood Downing. The volumes offer a unique portrait of the
routine life of all the peoples of Canton (modern day Guangzhou),
both higher and lower classes, Western and Chinese, and keen
insights on how the indigenous Chinese population viewed foreigners
working and living in their country (the Fan-qui - or foreign
devils - of the title). Among the wide range of topics covered by
Downing are commerce, culture, law, family relations, agriculture,
religion, medicine, smuggling, shipping and navigation, together
with information on attitudes to, and business restrictions upon,
the English, Americans, Mohammedans, Russians, French and Malays
who made up the Fan-qui population. Written in the years
immediately preceding the British invasion and the First Opium War
(1839-42), The Fan-qui in China reveals the perspective of a
foreigner trying, in difficult circumstances, to gain a sympathetic
understanding of Chinese society and civilization. With a new
introduction by Peter C. Perdue, Professor of History at Yale
University, these rare volumes will be welcomed by all those
interested in the history, commerce and culture of China and its
relations with other countries.
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