Narrative of a Recent Imprisonment in China after the Wreck of the
Kite (1841) is an autobiographical account, written by the merchant
sailor John Lee Scott, of his 'shipwreck and subsequent
imprisonment in the Celestial Empire' in 1840, during the First
Anglo-Chinese or so-called 'Opium' War. In eight chapters, Scott
describes leaving South Shields in the Kite, 'a beautiful brig of
281 tons' for Singapore in order to 'carry stores to the British
fleet destined for China'. Scott recounts how the Kite was capsized
on its way to deliver supplies to the British fleet based around
Chusan, and how he and other crew members, after being washed up on
the island of Ningpo, were captured by the Chinese and held
prisoner for five months. Scott's Narrative provides an interesting
insight into British perceptions of the Chinese during the
Anglo-Chinese conflicts of the nineteenth century.
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